If the mass student protests of Sept 8 and 9 last year rattled Nepal’s political establishment, the election verdict has shaken it even more profoundly. What began as youthful anger on the streets has now translated into a sweeping electoral message: Nepalis are weary of instability, exhausted by hung parliaments, and impatient with the endless…
Trump has broken a lot of precedents in US politics. As bombs keep falling, in what looks like an extended campaign against Iran, and the first American soldiers die in counterattacks, he is breaking another precedent. He’s started a war without getting any bump in support, at home. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter…
By Dada JP Vaswani Many of us mistakenly equate shakti with power or force. And power is always associated with masculine energy. But the Hindu way of thinking is different. In Sanatan Dharm, shakti is essentially the feminine principle, goddess or Devi. It is not without reason that every major deity in the Hindu pantheon…
It was a cool, crisp afternoon at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, with a palpable buzz in the air. Students gathered outside one of the classrooms well before noon, conversations humming with anticipation. As I waited to receive Ritesh Agarwal and Bejul Somaia, the energy in the room reflected the magnitude of the story…
Sundar Pichai, who was born in Madurai and studied in Chennai, has a very huge pay package from Google. Reports say he could earn about $692 million over three years, though much of it depends on how well the company performs and is given in company shares. Many people feel amazed when they hear numbers…
.http://youtube.com/shorts/1UtKIPf6leY?si=x6Dbs9l6q2_hjJsh Sporting triumphs, like India’s in T20, and heroic defeats, like Lakshya’s in All England, tell us much about life Team India, SKY leading from the front and coached by the almost never-smiling Gautam Gambhir, reserved their best for the last, to create cricket history on Sunday. In cricket, as in life, it’s not how…
The majority of the better-off keep gazing at the 1%. Our fascination has many layers Whether or not the number makes sense – and it likely doesn’t, given massive levels of financial illiteracy – it’s sexxxxy. $692mn. Yes, over three years. Yes, there are performance targets. Yes, a lot of it is company stock. But…
Lakshya Sen did not win the men’s singles title at the All England Open Badminton Championships this time. But even though he lost the final, many people see him as a hero. In the semifinal, Lakshya played an amazing match against Victor Lai. The match lasted more than one and a half hours. During the…
In Washington, a feud has erupted between the US Department of War and the AI company Anthropic, maker of the Claude model. The kerfuffle sounds like a classic corporate-state standoff, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walking away from a $200 million deal, refusing to drop contractual red lines that prohibited its AI. The Pentagon labelled…
Cooking oils have become one of the most polarizing topics in nutrition. Depending on who you follow online, seed oils are toxic, coconut oil is ancestral medicine, ghee is sacred, and olive oil is liquid gold. In today’s post (#67), I dig into this topic from a variety of angles: what is the role of…