The Power of Belonging: 45 Years of The Art of Living
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Imphal to Indore, the scale of the gathering at The Art of Living International Centre reflected the extraordinary breadth of his influence across public life.
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Imphal to Indore, the scale of the gathering at The Art of Living International Centre reflected the extraordinary breadth of his influence across public life.
These days I often don’t find the time to immediately respond to text or Whatsapp messages, far less answer emails at once.
Falling asleep in an express train while returning to Kolkata after a trip outside of West Bengal, listening to that “jhak jhak'' sound of the wheels on track was like my mother swaying me to sleep in her arms after playing all day.
I have a highly sophisticated, cutting-edge biological computer sitting inside my skull, but its storage capacity is almost full.
There are some cities that impress you immediately with their grandeur, and then there are cities that quietly cast a spell upon your soul. Prague belongs to the latter category.
Tomorrow, on 19 May 2026, 65 years will have passed since 11 individuals attained martyrdom in Silchar.
An Opening Steeped in Artistic Gravitas As dusk settled over Vidyasagar Udyan at College Square, the 32nd International Art and Sculpture Festival unfolded with a quiet grandeur that only Kolkata’s cultural ethos can sustain.
I often feel that the Kolkata of my youth no longer exists except in memory. Yet whenever I think of that lost city, I remember its seasons first—as though they were movements in a grand symphony that shaped the emotional rhythm of my life.
The violence that erupted in Manipur on 3 May 2023 and has now completed three years as of May 2026, did not produce a simple binary confrontation between Kukis-Zomis and Meiteis.
Nothing short of a saffron wave has gripped eastern India in recent years, and it was emphatically confirmed by the sweeping victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and the consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party secured a consecutive third-term electoral victory.