Knock, Knock… Who’s Fluent?

Imagine if learning a new language didn’t feel like staring at a boring textbook or memorizing a list of verbs that you’ll never use. What if it felt more like…

I To I

India-Israel ties have moved beyond business. As they say in Hebrew, sababa, that’s great There isn’t a better word to describe India-Israel relationshipthan the Hebrew ‘firgun’ – genuine pride in…

Jeffrey and me

As more Big Names are linked to Epstein, the needle of suspicion moves closer home Shortly after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Randy Andy Andrew, was arrested by the…

Scotus constitutional review of Trump tariffs and India’s stakes

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on 20 February 2026 delivered the most momentous decision in its 236-year history. Its significance lies in its worldwide impact on the tariffs imposed by…

Where we goofed up in spirituality

Last evening, I overheard a couple of seemingly learned men immersed in an avid discussion as I took my daily stroll by the poolside. Their topic, quite to my mind’s…

Why DAP 2026 signals India’s strategic break with dependency, what defence secretary thinks about

On 10 February 2026, the ministry of defence quietly placed on its website a draft that may prove to be one of the most consequential reforms in India’s military modernisation…

Child marriage and the paradoxes that sustain it

Child marriage exists in India amid a web of paradoxes, and it is perhaps this very complexity that has allowed the crime to survive and even thrive for centuries. Even…

If John Steinbeck read the Epstein Files, would he sigh?

I am well into the third year of my research based on the life and works of John Steinbeck (1902-1968), an American author and Nobel prize winner; and at this…

How Uttar Pradesh’s youth are redefining success

For long, the political imagination around youth in Uttar Pradesh was shaped by images of mobilisation, assertion and proximity to power. Energy often translated into visibility rather than productivity. That…

A clear roadmap for students at every stage

For many students in India, CERN feels like a distant dream, tied only to the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson discovery. In reality, while physics drives CERN’s mission,…