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Listen to the rustling leaves...
Singapore Diary: Heritage Trees — Some are centuries old, that have witnessed the colonial port change to a to global city.


Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'
By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.


'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.


Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.


Worming
"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - Chinua Achebe By Aayushi Rana That is how they spelled it. The threatening notes , slipped under the door of a school for girls, placed in the corners of a hospital full of the sick and the dying, in 1896 Bombay. Warning. Spelt worming. The Native Society, anonymous, invisible, full of bile. That detail is from a novel, not from the two books under review here. But reading M


Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.


The River that Refuses to be Silent
By Suresh Nautiyal.
What replaces a river that is also memory?


Tax the super-rich, close the gap
the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.


STOP these FORCED marriages
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.


Rocky is gorgeous. The movie is beautiful. Go see it.
By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.


“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.


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.


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


The Locked Gates of Park Circus
By Shabina Akhtar in Kolkata. “Can you beat this? My wife’s name was in the adjudication list. We transferred the case to Kolkata and presented all the documents during the hearing. Her name was cleared from the adjudication list. But, surprisingly, back in our native place, she has been put on the doomed list.”


Return of the dotbusters
When asked last year about comments made by Fuentes, the vice president said that Fuentes can “eat shit.”


India Greens Party: STOP THIS WAR!
The people of Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East (West Asia) deserve peace, dignity, and the right to determine their own futures free from war, occupation, and external domination.


The intimacy of Memory
By Suresh Nautiyal. This heritage shows how journeys across seas became roots in soil; how cultural inheritance adapts without dissolving; how identity, when shared with dignity, strengthens the broader social fabric.


You Can’t Blame AI, My Lord
What steps can a judge or lawyer take to ensure that a cited legal document is not the result of an ‘AI hallucination’, which may produce false or fabricated information along with seemingly legitimate citations?
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