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“My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him"
By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.


To honour all those who fell with dignity
By Inderjeet Parmar. Forgetting the 'war dead', or allowing their memory to be bulldozed, diminishes us all. May the soil be smoothed, the stones reset, and the silence broken in renewed commitment to the universal sanctity of the fallen.


ADVANTAGE IRAN!
By Seema Mustafa. So why did Trump postpone military strikes on power plants in Iran?


A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.


The very being, of being transgender
By Suresh Nautiyal, The shadow of criminalisation looms large. Vague penal provisions risk being misused against families, doctors, educators, and allies, fracturing networks of care, and pushing the community further into isolation.


'I am so scared… please come…' They can block the film in India. Can they block the little girl's last words, ever?
India repeatedly abstained from UN resolutions which called for a ceasefire in Gaza
Editor's Pick


ADVANTAGE IRAN!
By Seema Mustafa. So why did Trump postpone military strikes on power plants in Iran?


An Oxymoron. Pure Evil.
By Aditya Nigam. Iran is giving them a run for their money.


Imagined Homeland, and other stories
By Amit Sengupta. When the Tide Goes Out. Where ever they went, they enriched the land, made the earth golden, the sweat on their brow nourishing the soil.
Politics


To honour all those who fell with dignity
By Inderjeet Parmar. Forgetting the 'war dead', or allowing their memory to be bulldozed, diminishes us all. May the soil be smoothed, the stones reset, and the silence broken in renewed commitment to the universal sanctity of the fallen.


ADVANTAGE IRAN!
By Seema Mustafa. So why did Trump postpone military strikes on power plants in Iran?


'I am so scared… please come…' They can block the film in India. Can they block the little girl's last words, ever?
India repeatedly abstained from UN resolutions which called for a ceasefire in Gaza
History


Carnival time in Khajuraho
Photo feature by Raju Mansukhani. Timeless messages of magical love, aesthetic beauty and compassion in a world scarred by relentless volatility, war and chaos...


Woman, Dance, Resistance
By Aprameya Manthena. Chandralekha believed that the classical tradition had to be re-applied with the age-old questions surrounding body, sexuality, devotion, power, resistance, beauty, spirit,fertility, nature and intellect.


One-Liners and a Machete: Priyanka Chopra Returns to Action as Pirate ‘Bloody Mary’ in ‘The Bluff’
The Bluff with Priyanka Chopra as lead. “She stabs, she slashes, she shoots arrows, she shoots flintlocks,” according to The New York Times.
Society


“My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him"
By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.


A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.


The very being, of being transgender
By Suresh Nautiyal, The shadow of criminalisation looms large. Vague penal provisions risk being misused against families, doctors, educators, and allies, fracturing networks of care, and pushing the community further into isolation.
Ground Report


To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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“My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him"
By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.


To honour all those who fell with dignity
By Inderjeet Parmar. Forgetting the 'war dead', or allowing their memory to be bulldozed, diminishes us all. May the soil be smoothed, the stones reset, and the silence broken in renewed commitment to the universal sanctity of the fallen.


ADVANTAGE IRAN!
By Seema Mustafa. So why did Trump postpone military strikes on power plants in Iran?


A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.


The very being, of being transgender
By Suresh Nautiyal, The shadow of criminalisation looms large. Vague penal provisions risk being misused against families, doctors, educators, and allies, fracturing networks of care, and pushing the community further into isolation.


'I am so scared… please come…' They can block the film in India. Can they block the little girl's last words, ever?
India repeatedly abstained from UN resolutions which called for a ceasefire in Gaza


Dhurandar 2: All that gore ...
In a polarized India, the film represents a troubling milestone: a blockbuster that openly blurs entertainment with political campaigning, daring audiences to separate art from agenda.


Stupid. Honestly stupid. Here comes the Clown-Artist
By Sarita Chouhan in Mumbai. Lulu’ as a clown. Lulu is a girl from Paris who loves people.


AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.


An Oxymoron. Pure Evil.
By Aditya Nigam. Iran is giving them a run for their money.


A Fireball Crusader, with a tattoo on his chest
By Amit Sengupta. War as a fantastic, cathartic, fanatic, White Supremacist, racist, masculine ‘Game of Thrones’ with Trump as the newest prophet of doom, and Hegseth his sidekick with a crusader’s tattoo on his body.


Hello Hannah! Now, Britain needs a Plumber
By Suresh Nautiyal. Big victory for Green Party in UK. A plumber shows the way!


Imagined Homeland, and other stories
By Amit Sengupta. When the Tide Goes Out. Where ever they went, they enriched the land, made the earth golden, the sweat on their brow nourishing the soil.


Between this bully and that, the end of Pax Americana
By Satya Sagar. India and Pakistan have been exposed as Trojan Horses for Western imperialism by openly collaborating with the US and Israel. They have lost respect worldwide and within their own borders by failing to stand by Iran .


Can commerce align with conscience, growth with grace?
By Suresh Nautiyal. Migration crystallised into culture, and capital crystallised into the skyline.
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