Think of Tantra as a timeless tradition that goes back to antiquity. Distinguished Indian pedagogue and printmaker Dipak Banerjee went on a French Scholarship to Paris and Oslo.William Hayter’s Atelier 17 gave him the proficiency to study the process of multicoloured intaglios with the viscosity method.He worked in Norway for a while and came to…
Neurodiversity has moved from academic discussions into everyday parenting conversations. It is because children don’t think, learn, or process emotions in the same way. For parents, it is crucial to understand neurodiversity because it’s not just about awareness, instead it directly shapes how children are supported, and how they navigate the world. Why is it…
From May 15 to June 15, 2026, Sun moves from Aries to Taurus. This changes the mood immediately. Aries is fast, direct, impatient and action-driven. Taurus is slower, steadier and more concerned with money, comfort, security, food, family values and long-term stability. So this one-month period is not about rushing into everything. It is about…
One frustrating dog walk helped George de Mestral invent Velcro. Image credit – Wikimedia Velcro, the billion-dollar fastener used by NASA, has an unremarkable origin story. In 1941, Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral went out on a walk and observed that there were burrs caught on his dog’s hair and his clothes. The average person…
The CBSE Class 12th results this year felt like an emotional rollercoaster for lakhs of students across the country. The wait seemed endless at first. Then, on May 13, when the results were finally declared, emotions spilled over in every possible form. Some students refreshed websites with trembling hands. Some avoided looking at their marksheets…
When Chinese President Xi Jinping met US President Donald Trump in Beijing on Thursday, one phrase unexpectedly dominated strategic discussions between the world’s two biggest powers: the “Thucydides Trap”.“Whether China and the United States can transcend the so-called Thucydides Trap and create a new normalization of relations between major powers; whether we can join hands…
Every now and then, we are bound to ask ourselves the same question: why are we still reading novels? The dictionary defines a novel as a relatively long work of narrative fiction. But a definition tells us what a novel is. It does not tell us what a novel does. Understanding can only begin when…
Optical illusions do more than trick your eyes — they shine a light on how your brain builds the world and, by extension, on parts of your personality. Because our minds evolved to process information quickly, they often fill in missing details and favour patterns that helped our ancestors survive. Those snap judgments tell a…
Amavasya has a great religious significance among Hindus. The day is considered as the most sacred day, which is dedicated to worship ancestors or forefathers. The day is also celebrated as Shani Jayanti and this day is going to be observed on Amavasya tithi so it will be obsered as Shani Amavasya. This month, Shani…
During segregation, African American children in the South lacked proper schools. Businessman Julius Rosenwald, collaborating with Booker T. Washington, funded over 5,000 schools, residences, and shops. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons There have been countless examples of the story of access to education under segregation in the American South being recounted from the perspective of a…