Why we shouldn’t feel so bad about our bad sex life

As philosopher Alain de Botton explains, modern lovers should redraw their expectations from relationships – they should value any satisfaction they get, as the norm really is sexual rejectionAdvait Kamath…

Farfetched dreams through mismatched crossroads

As the annual board results season knocks on our doors, it brings with it a familiar frenzy—a high-stakes atmosphere where dinner table conversations turn into data comparisons and percentage becomes…

Commercial diplomacy in an era of geopolitical fragmentation

Commercial diplomacy—the use of diplomatic pathways, state institutions, and political capital to promote trade, investment, and corporate interests abroad—has become a central pillar of foreign policy in the 2020s. What…

Which will price capital first?

The temptation to frame climate and war risk as competing forces is analytically insufficient. The real question is not which dominates, but “which markets can structurally price within current financial…

Uttarakhand and the fiscal paradox of ecological security 

As ecological risks intensify across India’s mountain states, the question is no longer whether forests generate national benefits, but how these benefits and risks are being recognised and internalised within the country’s fiscal federal…

Life is worth living only when shared

By P Raja What is man, or for that matter, woman? The human body undergoes change every minute, every second, without our knowledge. We know that the body is present…

Dilli government and old cars

Imagine this: you go to buy petrol for your car, but the petrol pump says, “No fuel for you!” Why? Because you don’t have a special paper called a PUC…

Portrait of a lady

A grand dame of Kolkata’s Park Street prepares to celebrate her 100th birthday Even as she prepares to turn 100 next year, a grand lady of Park Street in Kolkata…

India’s recalibrated strategic response in South Asia 

India’s foreign policy has always been deeply shaped by geography – its borders are not merely lines on a map but dynamic corridors of culture, commerce, migration, and shared history.…

Expanding our consciousness

The human quest to understand God and the purpose of existence lies at the heart of spiritual inquiry, especially within the profound traditions of Hindu philosophy. One of the earliest…