Super El Niño Effect Hits Home: Bengal’s Villages Face Early Climate Breakdown
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
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.
In the golden age of misinformation, where libraries have been replaced by search tools and newspapers by headlines that fit the 'Breaking News' notification, a new, prestigious institution has emerged. It has no campus, no faculty, and absolutely no fact-checkers.
In the unfolding environmental history of the twenty–first century, few institutions operate as quietly yet as decisively as the Indian Forest Service (IFS).
A TV commercial for American Eagles brand jeans, featuring blue-eyed blonde actress Sydney Sweeney, caused a storm of controversies in the US. Many people complained that the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” really implies that Sydney has great genes ("jeans" being homophonic with “genes”) – thus promoting white supremacy.
Observed annually on April 12, the date marks the birth anniversary of late Safdar Hashmi, the eminent activist and playwright who was killed in a brutal attack while performing a street play on January 1, 1989.
Naples does not reveal itself gently. It arrives all at once—loud, unruly, unapologetically alive.
