By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.

By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.

Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion. degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.

By Sreela Das Gupta. A poem on hope amidst all-round angst and anger in Bengal.

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?