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 the tangled web of Sudan’s civil war, new allegations of chemical weapons’ use have emerged, casting a long and troubling shadow over a conflict that has already claimed over 150,000 lives.
Considering 2021 alone, the Government reported 3.32 lakh deaths due to Covid-19, but there were 21.5 lakh excess deaths in 2021, for which there is no explanation ~ except Covid-19.
Wall Street pundits and investors are schizophrenic about the dollar. The dollar weakened after Moody’s cut the US credit rating by one notch from Aaa (the highest rating — to Aa1, attributing the downgrade to the increasing fiscal deficit, as well as the rising interest rate costs on Federal government debt.
The thunderous nine-minute ovation that greeted Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound at Cannes this year is more than a festival anecdote; it announces a long-overdue course correction in Indian filmmaking.
Bangladesh finds itself at a political crossroads once again, where the future of its democratic fabric is being quietly shaped not by elected leaders, but by the stewards of state power ~ its military leadership.
