Reimagining colonial power: The role of material and visual culture in...
In the comprehensive historiographical landscape of British India, the material and visual dimensions often played a secondary role to political, economic, and cultural narratives. Christopher Pinney’s...
View ArticleMangoes and manners
It’s so long ago that I no longer remember why or where I was going. It was a local train, one of those green and yellow compartments with an open door divided by a single...
View Article2nd pillar of health: detoxification
Having completed the first and most important pillar of health—Food, we now move on to the second pillar of health—Detoxification. First, let’s discuss the cellular structure of our body. Cells are the...
View ArticleWhy India’s engagements with Russia matter?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Moscow on July 8-9 for the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit is significant in many aspects. This is his first bilateral visit since starting his third term as...
View ArticleShouldn’t education also focus on self-development practices for our...
“Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man”. “Education is the training by which the current and the expression of will are brought under control and becomes fruitful in life’. “Your...
View ArticleHistory of Hinduism in Lakki hills, Sindh
Imagine you are a 20-year-old living in the 7th century CE at Lakki Hills, a revered Sanatan capital in Sindh. This place, rich in tradition and spiritual essence, has been your home for as long...
View ArticleAll that extra baggage
Today’s airlines wouldn’t be able to handle yesterday’s trunks People have matching luggage these days and it’s all so delicate and fashionable no wonder baggage handlers at airports have fun breaking...
View ArticleTank you, DRDO
The defence tech body’s light tank is good news. But armoured units need much more In a much needed break, India’s indigenous light tank has completed the prototype development stage under Project...
View ArticleBig changes in Iran
Iran just had an important election. The winner, Masoud Pezeshkian, wants to make some changes that could make life better for many people in Iran. What’s different? More freedom: Pezeshkian played a...
View ArticleTehran twist
As religious conservatives ebb in Iran, it’s not Iranian women alone who are taking hope Are presidential elections in Iran free and fair? Hardly. A stark tell is that instead of being selected by...
View ArticleGood news for India’s army!
India has made its own light tank! This is exciting because: It’s made in India by smart scientists and engineers. It’s lighter than other tanks, so it can go to places high in the mountains...
View ArticleWhy Modi’s in Moscow
When Modi and Putin sit for dinner in Putin’s Moscow dacha tonight, they will chew on a geopolitical and bilateral context that has changed dramatically since they broke roti together in Delhi in 2021....
View ArticleIf governments really cared, Hathrases wouldn’t happen
Within hours of the two-day Jagannath rath yatra in Puri starting to cover its 3km journey, there was news of a “stampedelike” situation, some reports suggesting a death and people critically injured....
View ArticleFactory of lies!
During the campaigning for the Lok Sabha election, the Congress and the I.N.D.I. Alliance demonstrated how desperate and low they could stoop to win power. They even went to the extent to propagate...
View ArticleCan Modi end Putin’s era of war?
No sooner did the Ukraine Peace Summit in Switzerland end that diametrically opposite reactions on the summit started emerging, calling it both a success and a failure. India not signing onto the joint...
View ArticleGulam Mohammed Sheikh’s prints unfold stories
At Gallery Sumukha in Bangalore artist/curator N.Pushpamala creates a two-part retrospective of veteran Gulam Mohammed Sheikh’s printmaking years, and this exhibition spans 1956—2021. From woodcuts to...
View ArticleFrom stress to strength: Navigating negative emotions
The way we deal with our inner world drives everything around us. It affects how we treat and respond to others, including ourselves. Last weekend was our Book Club meeting and we also reviewed one...
View ArticleGarden of Mendel
Academic exclusivity in the field of science has been the bane of common people who love this noble discipline but find contributing to it substantially difficult. Those not ‘formally trained’ have...
View ArticleWhy Edappadi Palaniswami and Annamalai pour scorn on each other
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai are at each other’s throats. Again. On Friday, Annamalai said AIADMK would have come third, if not fourth, if it...
View ArticleBieber’s boxers
Every Indian male is Captain Underpants at heart Fashion may have begun with bark, foliage and animal skin as a simple matter of modesty and keeping warm, but is today a zillion-dollar industry with...
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