Poopular mechanics
Apollo to Artemis, plumbing is space travel’s Achilles’ heel – there are 96 bags of human poop on Moon Forget Mars. It’s not happening. You might make bulletproof rockets and…
Malayali vibes
With development, come contradictions, the Kerala kind. Thursday will see electors vote strategically Come Thursday, Kerala votes. And they must choose, in the main, between incumbent, CPM-led LDF, and opposition…
Guru Padmasambhava: The lotus-born ‘2nd Buddha’
When Gautama Buddha left his physical body, it is said that he foretold that after 8 years, the ‘second Buddha’ would appear. In the 8th century, in the mystical land…
Health in a fragmented world!
When we talk of public health anywhere in the world, whether it is disease elimination, targets, surveillance and related efforts, the first reference point is often the World Health Organization.…
Ideas for reflection by study circles – managing our mind towards ‘good, better, best’
“From our childhood upward, we have been taught only to pay attention to things external, but never to things internal; hence most of us have nearly lost the faculty of…
India’s enduring foreign policy wisdom
The recent resolution in the House of Representatives of the United States seeking formal American recognition of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, while calling for accountability for those responsible, marks a…
The day Google stopped being the front door
Until a few years ago, the internet worked like a city of shopfronts. You could ideally build a website, maybe polish your search rankings, run campaigns, write engaging blogs, and…
The target is not the transition
There is a particular kind of institutional dishonesty that does not involve lying. It involves announcing the right destination, then doing nothing meaningful to get there, and treating the announcement…
Group tours, a personal perspective
The idea of a group tour often brings to mind a swarm of matching hats following a flag-waving guide. But if you look closer at that crowd, you’ll see a…
Winner will be familiar but game may change
The key question in the 2026 Kerala assembly election is whether the state will return to its predictable cycle of power alternation, or whether voters will make history by electing…