By Meher Pestonji. With the emphasis on materialism and rational thinking, have humans de-valued, perhaps lost, subtle but powerful energy connections?

By Baishali Chatterjee . Would you like the story of your life to be told in a highly boring fashion, or would you like it to be told with beautiful music in it?  

By Pervez Akhtar Khan. This is not justice. It is escalation by slogan.  

By Rao Farman Ali. This alienation, she argues, severs the child from their cultural moorings. “When your worth is tied to a biology textbook or a physics equation, even problems of mathematics, what room is there for Lal Ded’s Vaakhs, Shaikh Ul Alam's Shruks or the revolutionary verses of Abdul Ahad Azad, even patriotic stanzas of Mehjoor?

By Rao Farman Ali. At least they will not be trapped inside, waiting for the storm.

By Rao Farman Ali. Last spring in Kashmir, Altaf secured the hives on his mini-truck successfully and happily caught the first light of the snow on the peaks. His journey, like that of his bees, was a search for sustenance and sweetness in a rugged, beautiful, and uncertain land, with that deep sense of hope, that this journey will continue -- come what may.

By Janaky Sreedharan. Seema Khanwalkar offers an interesting mix of insights into folk culture, popularity of nano cars, digital identity of the sari, vagaries of the Indian middle class and the branding of Gandhi, to name but a few.

By Regina Johnson. Even in her absence, Roy’s work created a space for critical thinking. The conversation illustrated the book club’s goal of using global literature as a bridge between cultures and struggles.

By Zafar Sobhan/The death of the charismatic and popular student leader Osman Hadi has sparked widespread violence across Bangladesh, including attacks on newspaper offices. This is just what his killers wanted.

By Narendra Pachkhede in Toronto. Francis Fukuyama saw an ending and mistook it for a universal horizon; Faisal Devji does not agree.  

By Baishali Chatterjee. many of these forms of work have been abolished by the government, whether it's bar dancing, or imposing bans on erotic dancing etc, or legal restrictions oon commercial surrogacy.

By Ratna Raman. In VS Naipaul's semi-autobiographical ‘A House for Mr Biswas’, there are only fleeting glimpses of its most attractive woman character. What if she were to tell her story and that of Naipaul – or Anand, her son in the novel – instead of the other way round? Hence, her story.

Vizag is choking. The impact is especially severe on children, the poor and elderly.

By Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor. And those waves still warm me. How Zoona Dub became a lifeline for every household in beautiful Kashmir, and how it became a role model for radio stations of All India Radio.  

By Aayushi Rana. Can a poem stop a bullet?

By Meher Pestonji. Vincent Delacroix’ book, Small Boat, short listed for the 2025 Booker is a philosophically fictitious version of an incident that occurred on the night of November 23/24, 2021. An inflatable dinghy, overloaded with thirty migrants, capsized, drowning 27 refugees.  Small Boat is a startling, unexpected book that philosophizes, as much as exposes the frailty of the human condition today.

By Satya Sagar. There's something about original, creative, auithentic hand-drawn work that AI cannot and can never fully replicate.

By B Sivaraman. New York can hardly be described as a major urban citadel of the Left. It cannot be compared to a ‘revolutionary St. Petersburg in Russia, or Red Vienna and Red Berlin of the early 20th century. Zohran Mamdani’s performance would be closely watched.

By Rao Farman Ali. As the sun sets over Pampore, casting long shadows across the patchy fields, Abdul Hamid Wani sits on his haunches, looking at the small, crimson pile in a wooden tray that represents a year of his life, his hope, and his struggle. It is a sight that brings to mind an old couplet, a nightingale's plea to a stone for a single blade of grass.

By Nargis Natarajan. "My family is financially stable. But I cannot bear the inhuman pressure for such a minor job. I am mentally shattered,”