As climate activist and education reform advocate Sonam Wangchuk enters the nineteenth day of his indefinite hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, one question is growing louder than the slogans around him: Will it have any impact on anyone, after all, who is Sonam Wangchuk. Google searches are increasing, butContinue Reading
As night falls across India, the country closes another turbulent day with a protest entering a dangerous phase, a horrifying crime raising questions about the collapse of basic humanity, billions of rupees moving through the markets, and new controversies reaching the corridors of power. Beyond India’s borders, war clouds continue to gather over the Middle East as the confrontation between the United States and Iran threatens to reshape the global energy order.Continue Reading
The world remembers a strategist, a moderniser, a controversial and consequential statesman but his greatest monument is not a palace, a tower or a statue. It is modern Qatar itself.Continue Reading
From the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz to the burning forests of Europe, from missile-scarred Kyiv to the enduring memory of an Indian scientist who gave his life for the Ganga, the world enters another uneasy evening confronted by crises that appear different on the surface but are bound together by a deeper question: how far will nations and institutions allow danger to grow before decisive action becomes unavoidable?Continue Reading
Bhaavna Arora, the bestselling author celebrated for turning painstaking research into deeply human narratives of conflict, brings us another powerful story from the heart of India’s Maoist heartland. In this piece, she introduces us to Papa Rao Continue Reading
For countless students in rural and remote areas, the path to school is not a straightforward commute but a daily odyssey fraught with physical dangers, natural obstacles, and systemic neglect. Unpaved roads, treacherous terrains, unreliable transport, and swollen rivers test their resolve. Nowhere is this more starkly illustrated than in the Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand, where children risk their lives crossing rivers on makeshift contraptions because bridges washed away years ago remain unrepaired.Continue Reading
Forgiveness, she tells those who ask, is not forgetting. Maya has found her healing in forgiveness, because forgiveness is the best healing from all pain.Continue Reading
