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The Question That Outlasts Death

India, Sept. 15 -- We spend so much energy pursuing comfort and security, rarely pausing to ask what truly matters, until we're forced to and many times too late. The story of young Nachiketa reverses... Read More


BRICS and the paradox of strategic autonomy

India, Sept. 15 -- BRICS wants to build a multipolar world less dependent on Western power. Yet its own members remain deeply dependent on competing centres of technology, finance, energy, markets and... Read More


Teaching cannot run on sacrifice

India, Sept. 15 -- A job where competence is regularly rewarded with greater labour is essentially flawed. The trustworthy instructor will soon be required to oversee challenging classes, fulfil deadl... Read More


India's Global south wager at BRICS

India, Sept. 15 -- India used the final day of the BRICS summit for outreach to regional powers across the Global South. Can Delhi now turn diplomatic goodwill into tangible outcomes? A day after lea... Read More


Forest martyrs: The silent war to protect India's wilds

India, Sept. 15 -- From the Bishnoi sacrifice at Khejrali to the daily battles against poachers, smugglers and hostile terrain, frontline forest staff remain the largely unsung soldiers of conservatio... Read More


India's leap toward sustainable mobility

India, Sept. 15 -- Last week, as the world marked EV Day, India's electric mobility journey of speed, scale and sustainability stood out as a useful case study. Being the third-largest automotive mark... Read More


Bishkek's real test: What the SCO's 25th Summit means for India

India, Sept. 15 -- Ten full members, two observers and fourteen dialogue partners under one roof invite an easy reading: another photograph of the world's shifting power balance. The Shanghai Cooperat... Read More


Malaysian PM Anwar croons Kishore Kumar song, wins hearts

India, Sept. 14 -- The mass appeal of Hindi film songs knows no boundaries or leaders, and was seen at the BRICS Summit in New Delhi this weekend. Despite a packed schedule, Malaysian Prime Minister A... Read More


The Obstacle He Broke With His Own Hand

India, Sept. 14 -- Today is Ganesha Chaturthi. Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, receives the first pooja, invoked before any undertaking begins, so that the path ahead is cleared before the first st... Read More


The question Akhilesh Yadav must answer

India, Sept. 14 -- Akhilesh Yadav now speaks of protecting a journalist's right to ask questions. If a reporter cannot put a question, he says, a press conference should not be called a press conferen... Read More