A homecoming of sorts for yoga
Throughout history, certain ideas have travelled beyond boundaries and transformed societies.
Throughout history, certain ideas have travelled beyond boundaries and transformed societies.
Having studied, in the sixties, at two of Bengal’s iconic institutions, and having observed the paths these have traversed, some thoughts crossed my mind for consideration of the new government.
History remembers the phrase anyway because it captured something people desperately wanted to believe: that those who ruled France had become incapable of understanding the ambitions, anxieties and frustrations of ordinary people.
There was a time when financial markets valued companies on the basis of what they produced, what they earned and what they could reasonably be expected to achieve.
The anti-defection law was meant to end the era of the “Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram” politician. Four decades later, it has produced constitutional alchemists seeking ever newer ways to turn defection into legality.
In a nation long teetering between liberal aspirations and nationalist instincts, the latest presidential election in Poland has underscored just how finely balanced its political future remains.
A proposed new law, named after a student whose tragic death high lighted a deep-seated crisis, offers significant hope for tackling caste discrimination in India's higher education system.
The arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and new technology has been heralded as a game-changer. But how will it unfold, and who will be able to take advantage of AI to win the Contest of the Century, US, China or some other country? Writing in Foreign Affairs (November 2023), James Manyika and Nobel Laureate economist Michael Spence argued that “by the beginning of the next decade, the shift to AI could become a leading driver of global prosperity.”
It was in 1965 that the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize amidst much brouhaha that did not escape even a class V student that I then was.
The impeachment motion against a sitting High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, is more than a test of an individual’s integrity — it is a test of the Indian judiciary’s moral spine and the political class’s will to act above partisan instincts.
