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Governor calls on youth to lead ‘change’, Mamata hits back

West Bengal Governor RN Ravi urged the youth of West Bengal to take an active role in bringing about “positive change” and restoring the state’s lost glory, while highlighting what he described as a significant economic decline over the decades.

A line drawn by the court

The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to mandate menstrual leave across India was not an abdication of concern for women’s health.

End of an era in Indian music Legendary singer Asha Bhosle dies after critical health battle in Mumbai

We’ve lost Asha, but not hope

For some reason, the news of the passing away of Asha Bhosle hit me much harder than the news of the death of her sister, the Melody Queen Lata Mangeshkar a few years ago.

Is US planning naval blockade on Iran? Trump’s latest post after talks collapse in Islamabad fuels speculation

Blockade Gamble

When US President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade targeting Iranian ports, he was not merely escalating a regional conflict ~ he was testing the limits of economic coercion in a tightly interdependent world.

Mess made by the West ~ I

The transition from the declining Ottoman Empire to the contemporary Middle East is a story of profoundly tragic transformation fundamentally shaped by Western interests, strategies and intervention.

End of Era

The fall of Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán after sixteen uninterrupted years in power is not merely a routine electoral upset; it is the delayed correction of a political system that had steadily concentrated authority while maintaining the outward rituals of democracy.