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Film Fanaticism - A Cultural Obsession for Youth

India, Oct. 27 -- The following news sent shock waves all over the country: On September 27, 2025, at least 41 people were killed and around 100 others were injured in a crowd crush during a political... Read More


Iran, India and Hypocrisy!

India, Oct. 27 -- I read today that Iran, the same country where women are beaten, jailed and even killed for not wearing the hijab, witnessed quite a spectacle. The daughter of one of its senior defe... Read More


Celebrating Regression

India, Oct. 27 -- After years of slow but persistent progress toward cleaner celebrations, Delhi has fallen back into its old habits. The lifting of the cracker ban this Diwali marked the collapse of ... Read More


Festival of Crackers Assault of Sound and Smoke

India, Oct. 27 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi once made a remark that revealed more about his attitude towards climate change than perhaps he intended. He said that people were feeling colder with ea... Read More


Patience is Passion Tamed

India, Oct. 20 -- The eminent Greek philosopher Socrates cracked a joke when his disciples sat around him on the pyal of his house. Nobody knows to this day what joke it was that set the house rocking... Read More


Rising Impact of Right-Wing Politics

India, Oct. 20 -- Advocate Rakesh Kishore hurled his shoe at the Chief Justice of India, Mr Gavai. The background was that while delivering his verdict on a PIL filed by the advocate seeking the resto... Read More


Religions Commercialised

India, Oct. 20 -- Just recently, I hired an autorickshaw in Bengaluru. While travelling in the autorickshaw, I noticed a printed caption above the driver's seat. It read: "Price the Lord." My mind tol... Read More


Sonam Wangchuk: A Hero or a Threat?

India, Oct. 20 -- Sonam Wangchuk, a renowned Indian engineer, education reformer, and environmental activist from Ladakh, has undergone a striking transformation-from being a celebrated national icon ... Read More


Open Letter to Rajasthan CM Are You Scared of the 0.14 Per cent?

India, Oct. 20 -- Dear Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma Ji, Last fortnight, I travelled to Sihora in Madhya Pradesh to attend the 83rd Christa Panthi Ashram Day. It was my third visit to that tranquil village,... Read More


Sr Amala's Mission Among Rickshaw Pullers' Children

India, Oct. 20 -- As dawn broke over the busy streets of Muirabad, a little boy named Bikash tugged insistently at his father's shirt, reluctant to climb into the rickshaw. "I want to go to Sister," h... Read More