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E-cooking should be way forward

Geopolitical upheaval costs nations, leading to prolonged uncertainty and human sufferings which get compounded by a food and energy crisis.

Keir Starmer addresses media during a press conference in London

Vetting Failure

The controversy surrounding British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States is no longer a narrow dispute about a single decision gone wrong.

When identity becomes destiny

A few months ago, a cultural event in Kolkata centred on the Bengali word heyro. Loosely translated as “loser,” the programme leaned playfully into a familiar trope: the Bengali as a brilliant but impractical figure—intellectually animated yet economically unproductive.

Foreign Funding Oversight Bill to tighten NGO regulations introduced in Lok Sabha

Reform or Strategy

The recent failure to pass a constitutional amendment expanding the Lok Sabha and state assemblies and linking it to women’s reservation is being framed, predictably, as a clash over gender justice.

Lesson from Hungary

Recent times have seen “strongmen” leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mohammad Bin Salman, Paul Kagame, Kim Jong Un etc.