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Nature for climate, and nature for our future

World Environment Day , observed on 5 June every year, serves as a reminder of humanity's collective responsibility to protect the environment and ensure a sustainable future for generations to come.

Counting Trust

Every country counts its people. The real test lies in whether people are willing to be counted.

Care Beyond Cure

India's emergence as a healthcare destination for South Asia is often measured in numbers: foreign patients treated, hospitals accredited, surgeries performed and revenues earned.

Grey drizzle of horror

There are some deaths that leave us heartbroken. There are others that leave us bewildered. The recent death of my nephew, filmmaker Anik Dutta, left me feeling both.

Hormuz Gamble

The rhetoric surrounding the Iran conflict may still speak the language of ceasefires and negotiations, but the strategic reality points elsewhere. What is unfolding now is not the winding down of a war.

Adaptive Necessities

The high-priest of realpolitik, Henry Kissinger, nuanced asymmetric forces by insisting that, “The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.”

Don’t move back to Writers’

The reported plan of the new BJP government in West Bengal to shift the state secretariat back to the Writers’ Building in BBD Bagh from Nabanna, may be presented as a pragmatic step and a return to heritage.

Bengal craves for positivity

When the TMC government go t electorally ambushed on 4 May 2026, the focus could have immediately shifted to the immense potential that the newly installed government had in terms of meeting the aspirations of the populace in areas of income, employment and commercial endeavours.

Endgame Signals

For the first time since the Ukraine war began, Moscow appears to be preparing its public not for escalation, but for transition. President Vladimir Putin’s recent suggestion that the conflict may be “coming to an end” was not a peace declaration.