Just Collateral Damage

Ordinary people are targets of war everywhere, even though international laws forbade it 50 years ago If Earth formed 24 hours ago, humans have been around for just 1 second. And in that second, the time we’ve been good to each other is so short, you’d need to measure it with an atomic clock. Ancient…

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Why do biologic injections work?

PRP, fat cells, bone marrow aspirates, cultured mesenchymal cells, growth factors, and birth tissues are all being injected into injured and arthritic tissues with widespread success and very rare complications. Why do they all seem to work? In the past, injured and arthritic tissues were injected with cortisone. That reduced inflammation by shutting down tissue metabolism; it also,…

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Swadhyay: The sacred pause 

We live in an age that celebrates speed. Faster replies, quicker results, relentless movement. The modern human is praised not for depth, but for velocity. Life has quietly turned into a race where the finish line keeps shifting, and in the urgency to keep up, we often forget to ask a simpler, more essential question:…

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Love beyond desire

If truth finds its natural expression through love, it becomes important to understand what love truly means. In everyday life the word love is used very freely. We often use it to describe attachment, attraction, or emotional dependence. Yet spiritual traditions have always distinguished between these temporary emotions and the deeper experience of love. What…

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Malfeasance at large

USCIRF worked to puncture US interests by framing its strategic ally Bharat as a country of particular concern and recommend ban on RSS, RAW. What’s the hidden agenda?   Why doesn’t US President Donald J Trump wind up the pugnacious and toxic organization US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that worked against American interests?…

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Rethinking capacity building and sarpanch-pati syndrome in panchayats

Recently, on March 8th, 2026, the Government of India initiated the Say No to Proxy Sarpanch Campaign. It immediately picked up the pace on digital platforms using symbolic hashtags like #NoProxySarpanch and posting short videos, reels, and grassroots storytelling. This encouraged public identification of proxy practices and community-level social pressure against male interference. This leads…

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Content creators can’t hide behind the fig leaf of free speech

It’s quite simple, really.When lyricists and singers celebrate alcohol and drugs in their songs, young, intoxicated people at parties are encouraged to consume more alcohol and normalise drugs. And let me tell you that alcohol also causes cancer and erectile dysfunction. When filmmakers show songs with raunchy lyrics and double meanings, objectifying women, they are…

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Amendments a serious setback for transgenders

The new amendments proposed to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019, which came out of nowhere on March 12, are like a knife twisting into the heart of the trans community. The central claim for transgender rights has always been gender self-determination. The Supreme Court, in its seminal judgment in National Legal Services…

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Big exit at HDFC Bank raises even bigger questions about corporate governance

The sudden resignation of Atanu Chakraborty as non-executive chairman and independent director of HDFC Bank is not just another boardroom development. It is a moment that compels India Inc. to pause and reflect. In a country where board exits are typically cloaked in polite euphemisms — “personal reasons” or “other commitments” — this resignation stands…

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