By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:

By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.

By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.

By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.   

By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.

By Sarita Chouhan in Mumbai. Lulu’ as a clown. Lulu is a girl from Paris who loves people.

By Aditya Nigam. Iran is giving them a run for their money.

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.

By Suresh Nautiyal. Big victory for Green Party in UK. A plumber shows the way!

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.

By Anuradha Bhasin. Free Press. That may be wishful thinking in times when the government is pushing independent media to the brink and patronising an ecosystem of noise and nuisance.

By Ganpaty Nataraj. Modi called Benjamin Netanyahu — a man the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for — his brother.

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. AI. Will we become slaves to the machines and the corporations that run them? 

By Rao Farman Ali. Mutton holds a central place in daily life and family/community celebrations. Dishes such as the aromatic Rogan Josh, Rista, and the celebrated Gushtaba highlight how mutton is the essence of Wazwaan, Kashmir's traditional grand feast.

By Suresh Nautiyal. Little India is no longer merely a relic of colonial segregation; it is a confident commercial hub integrated into Singapore’s disciplined urban order.

Said Arundhati Roy: ‘It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time—when artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing everything in their power to stop it.’

By Naren Singh Rao. So why is the Assam CM talking about 'point-blank' in hate politics AI images, and Rs 4 to rickwhaw-pullers?

By Vikram Zutshi. There is something almost surreal about reading a luxury fashion writer describe her sequined Manish Malhotra sari paired with Cartier jewellery, and then shifting into commentary about anti-immigration marches.   

By Raju Mansukhani. On his 123rd birth anniversary, remember his words: Fanaticism is the greatest thorn in the path of cultural intimacy.

By Satya Sagar. Hope floats. In satire and caricature. In dissent and resistance. In freedom and justice.