There is no gender bias in Mahavir’s teachings

Ashok Vohra Jainism is one of the oldest religions of the world. According to it, every living being is a soul and has the potentiality of attaining liberation from the…

Count Us In

Imagine trying to understand how people live, but choosing to ignore some of them. That’s what might happen in India’s Census 2027. It plans to count couples living together without…

Count Us In

Census must not record live-in couples as ‘married’. It defeats the purpose of capturing social changes  If a govt doesn’t measure x, does x not exist? Furthermore, what are the…

Are Betting Markets Better at Predicting the Future?

People have always wanted to know the future. Long ago, they asked fortune tellers, astrologers, and people with crystal balls. Later, they started trusting “experts.” But experts can be wrong…

Bettor Is Best?

Will markets for prediction be any better at guessing the future than ‘experts’? Can they be manipulated? What will be, will be, but people want to see tomorrow, today. Our…

Revenge, the main act

It’s a blockbuster, at the movies and at home “Everyone else has watched it. Except us,” Kamala declared angrily. I thought she was talking about Trump’s confusing press conferences. But…

A journey through time and silence  — Bedsa, Bhaja, Karla Caves  

Our journey continued from Lavasa toward the ancient caves—a transition not just in geography but in inner experience. It took us about two and a half hours to reach Bedsa Caves near Kamshet. The first…

India’s gas crunch and air pollution demand an electric heat strategy 

India’s latest gas shortages, triggered by the current Middle East conflict, highlight how vulnerable its industrial energy system remains. From textiles and food processing to chemicals and metals, manufacturing relies heavily…

Second shock coming?

Iran & Houthis are gearing up for US ground troops. That could be real bad news for the world A month into the Iran war, three things strongly hint at…

Are we sleepwalking into another great power conflict?

It is said that ‘history repeats itself’ and it is also said that ‘when we forget history, geography is altered’.  While exact events do not repeat in identical form but…