Are you content? If not, when will you be?

Happiness is something that hasn’t left anyone untouched. And yet it is also very fragile. Now you are happy, but just one nasty phone call,  and your happiness goes out…

India’s Gen Z are in a happy place. For now…

The young in this country have high aspirations, but limited opportunities. So, Modi’s popularity among Gen Z isn’t a guarantee that their frustrations will never spill onto the streets Waves…

Where’s the war going?

For Israel, it isn’t over till Iran’s regime is savagely weakened. For Iran, it isn’t over till the world feels unbearable pain. For Trump, it isn’t clear when and/or how…

Celebrating new year the Balinese way

By Sandeep Chakravorty Today, it is almost unthinkable that a busy international airport shuts down completely for an entire day. It is not a one-time exception; it happens year after…

We Got It Worked Out

Many of us prefer reading about exercise, rather than doing it. We also cherrypick bits that suit us If only reading about exercise counted as exercise, we could all be…

If The Gulf Burns…

…The world pays. Trump must make sure Israel and Iran stop targeting W Asia energy fields Trump’s sharp reaction to Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field – and…

Bowing to LP-ji

Why we’ll never be short of gas O what’s the matter, Shanta mine So pale and vainly loitering? The veg has withered in your fridge, And no cookers hiss.I see…

If The Gulf Burns… 

If a big fight happens in the Persian Gulf, it doesn’t stay there — the whole world feels it Recently, there were attacks between Israel and Iran on very important…

We Got It Worked Out

Many of us prefer reading about exercise, rather than doing it. We also cherrypick bits that suit us If reading about exercise counted as exercise, we’d all be as fit…

Why does my child have my surname? A single mother’s voice

In February 2026, the Bombay High Court ruled that a child raised exclusively by a single mother cannot be forced to carry the father’s surname and caste in official records, emphasising…