Purple revolution a model for rural communities
There are moments in a nation’s journey when a quiet transformation in a remote corner becomes a symbol of national resurgence.
There are moments in a nation’s journey when a quiet transformation in a remote corner becomes a symbol of national resurgence.
Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.
President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.
On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.
Global warming policies were expected to drive a rapid shift toward a renewables-based energy system dominated by wind and solar.
India’s energy policy is often described in the language of “security”. That framing is comforting ~ and misleading.
When a late 19th-century painting by Raja Ravi Varma sells for $17.9 million (₹167 crore) at an auction, the number is arresting ~ but the meaning lies elsewhere.
The Iranian Kharg island is a coral outcrop in the Persian Gulf, 25 kilometers off mainland Iran.
In 1978, the Supreme Court of India did something that raised eyebrows and chuckles in equal measure - it declared that temples could be classified as “industries.”
The launch of Artemis II is being celebrated as a technological milestone, but its deeper significance lies elsewhere.
