If there is one thing the uniform teaches you, it is this: war is never as distant as it looks on a map. It travels quietly through economies, through emotions, through uncertainty – until it reaches the everyday life of ordinary people. Today, as conflicts continue beyond expected timelines, the world stands at a fragile…
Dr. B. Bala Bhaskar There are no winners in West Asia’s wars, and the unfolding conflict with Iran is unlikely to be an exception. At some point, each side will craft its own narrative of success. Yet the war—at the theatre of energy politics, sectarian contestation, regional dynamics and great power rivalry—is revealing deeper geopolitical…
War isn’t ending because both US and Iran want to claim victory. To win decisively, Trump needs boots on the ground, but that’s risky. Bombing Iran infra to bits won’t dismantle Iranian regime. Extending deadline again will be read as sign of Trump’s weakness Five weeks into the illegal US and Israeli war on Iran,…
In Part 1 of this series, we covered the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) framework, which uses a holistic approach to risk assessment, as well as the new PREVENT cardiovascular risk calculator. This new calculator is an important step in the right direction because, as leading cardiologist Dr Mohit Gupta has recently published, Western cardiovascular risk calculators have historically…
20 mayors, 117 presidents of municipal councils, around 4,000 corporators across municipal corporations and municipalities and hundreds of Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti members…. This summarizes BJP’s success in Maharashtra’s local self-government elections in 2026. The new generation would hardly believe that, until the 1990s, BJP in this very state had only a handful of…
Apollo to Artemis, plumbing is space travel’s Achilles’ heel – there are 96 bags of human poop on Moon Forget Mars. It’s not happening. You might make bulletproof rockets and cosmic wave shields, but where’s the toilet to last the trip? After 50 years of trying, the best we’ve got is the $30mn UWMS –…
With development, come contradictions, the Kerala kind. Thursday will see electors vote strategically Come Thursday, Kerala votes. And they must choose, in the main, between incumbent, CPM-led LDF, and opposition bloc, Congress-led UDF. What are the differentiators between the two in the state that is, undoubtedly, India’s most remarkable development story? Consecutive govts in Kerala…
When Gautama Buddha left his physical body, it is said that he foretold that after 8 years, the ‘second Buddha’ would appear. In the 8th century, in the mystical land of Uddiyana, a fully enlightened child manifested, not through ordinary birth, but miraculously on a lotus in the lake of Dhanakosha. This divine child was Guru Padmasambhava. King Indrabhuti,…
When we talk of public health anywhere in the world, whether it is disease elimination, targets, surveillance and related efforts, the first reference point is often the World Health Organization. It is difficult to imagine a world without a central body coordinating efforts to prevent and eliminate diseases. Yet it has only been active since…
“From our childhood upward, we have been taught only to pay attention to things external, but never to things internal; hence most of us have nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. To turn the mind, as it were inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and…