Opinion
Is UK government’s new ‘guidance’ to schools to ban the use of mobile phones, old wine in a new bottle? Or is sustained pressure the only way to move the meter, assuming that there is acceptance of the problem?In an advisory — not a directive — Britain schools have been...
They came, they testified, and they left. The senate hearing was not as fast as it was furious, there was Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew, Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel, Discord’s Jason Citron, and X’s Linda Yaccarino, all lined up to answer questions on ‘...
2024 is the year of elections. 60 countries will head to the polls with nearly half the world’s population coming together to shape the foreseeable future and its policies.In America, incumbent Biden’s support of Israel’s offensive in Gaza and a veto of ceasefire attempts has been ...
A war has no winners, notwithstanding western powers cheerleading from the side, violence begets violence and as it singes it inevitably takes down innocent civilians.The deepest trauma in conflict zones is reserved for women who are sexualised and dehumanised as tools of war. Images of a young Isra...
It is a bittersweet moment; the old order has changeth yielding place to new. A 96-year-old building that was not just the fulcrum of democracy but also an eyewitness to history has now been replaced. A triangular-shaped four-storeyed structure constructed at the height of the country’s Covid ...
When he finally heaved the javelin a mighty 88.13m (Olympics gold was 87.58m), Neeraj Chopra and a billion prayers crossed over to the other side with a silver at the World Championships.The athlete adds the latest medal to an already overflowing but bottomless cup — he is the defending Olympi...
A big step from Chandrayaan-3 and a giant leap for India. Through the last ‘minutes of terror’ as the spacecraft’s lander approached the lunar surface a nation of 1.4 billion collectively had its heart in its mouth, a pin could have dropped anywhere in the country and be heard. And...
The South Korean entertainment industry in the last decade has redefined soft power. The global reach of K-pop and K-drama has not just meant megabucks but a cult following for bands like BTS — before pressure or individual ambitions led them to take a break — has spanned beyond Southeas...
It took just a couple of hours for India’s capital to go under. As rain battered Delhi recording the wettest day in four decades, the city not surprisingly, struggled. Delhi is brought to its knees by almost every downpour seasonal or otherwise and it would have been unusual if it blustered th...
I grew up in a home that smelled of space, books and newspapers. The scent, not the kind to be bottled was in every nook of the ancient bungalow but it all came together in the living room with its high ceiling and cavernous shelves of hardbound encyclopaedia and vintage editions. It was here that t...
The callousness was heart wrenching to see. Dead bodies were being flung carelessly into an open truck, piled one on top of the other in a stark reminder that in India life is not just cheap but it can also be stripped off all dignity.The images brought back flashes of the second Covid wave where ev...
Neeraj Chopra is now the world number 1 in javelin and politicians who have predictably been lining up to get a pie of the flashbulbs will jostle just a bit more. They will take until he gives and then, it is no one’s guess.We don’t know how to treat our sporting heroes, maybe it is beca...
No one saw this coming, but heavy snowfall in May in Kashmir is not surprising given recent extreme global weather patterns. Tourists are delighted, but for the locals there is a big worry that the unseasonal snow could damage crops and apple orchards. For the second time this year, scientists have ...
It was a night to remember. On a stage where divas descend and stardom is sprinkled like fairy dust, Indian cinema not just dazzled but also captured hearts with the ultimate embrace, a standing ovation.The unstoppable Naatu Naatu from SS Rajamouli’s RRR kept its foot-tapping promise, winning ...
For long it has been considered an illness that afflicts the old. No longer so and the depreciating age is not just alarming but needs immediate attention away from the episodic panic that greets the news that another high profile young Indian has suffered a heart attack.Beyond the celebrity glare a...
The Mahatma is dead, long live the Mahatma. In reality, 75 years after three bullets were point-blank pumped into Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s chest as he made his way to a multi-faith prayer meeting, he no longer lives among the people for whom he gave his life.Gandhi’s killing was the ...
There are no warning signs, the crow’s feet like an artist’s imagination have long left their indelible mark, to colour or not to colour those peppery strands gone rogue is a dilemma older than even the scent of the pandemic.Yet, there is something different about us, about them. While s...
Distractions, diversions and outright defiance though were met by pockets of resistance, hatred the year showed can continue to have its interns but it was the well- meaning who held their own.Rahul Gandhi walked the good walk, his Bharat Jodo Yatra has now criss-crossed 3000 kms across the changing...
The ink on the legacy will take time to dry, it is not every day that we are bequeathed a timeless largesse. On a night when football won, Leo Messi won bigger. He showed us how the beautiful game was magic but all the tricks had been in his hand, he was the magician.Going into the final, the writin...
Four days. That is all it took to destroy 135 lives as hands flailing and failing men, women and 47 children plunged to their death in Gujarat’s Machchhu river. A newly repaired suspension bridge snapped so callously that for many it was over even before they could make sense of what was happe...
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