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Rot at the top

Indian administration has always had a fantastic worldwide reputation. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel once referred to our civil services as the “steel frame” of the nation.

World’s response to warming is reckless

Fireworks at America’s 250th birthday bash, claimed to be the ‘best firework show ever!’ by President Donald Trump, is the new low in sending poisonous gases into the atmosphere. Over 40 minutes, 851,000 individual shells were fired.

Hydrogen rail signals clean energy leap

Prime Minister Modi flagged off India’s first indigenous hydrogen powered train on the Jind–Sonipat section, marking a historic leap in clean mobility and Atmanirbhar Bharat vision.

Cockroach Rising

What began as an irreverent internet joke has acquired the unmistakable weight of a political movement.

Choice Reimagined

The return of arranged marriages among sections of India’s younger generation is less a rejection of modernity than an indictment of the digital age’s promise that technology could simplify the search for lifelong companionship.

Being lonely

Although loneliness stems from a feeling of social isolation, ironically, it is one of the most unifying human experiences.

Citizen’s Burden

When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.

War and Consent

The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.

Plutocracy gone crazy

At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.