Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, is a strong contender at this year’s Oscars. It is a heart-wrenching fiction about Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (or Anne), and the event that allegedly inspired the play Hamlet: the loss of their only son, Hamnet, at the age of eleven. Agnes never forgives her husband for being absent…
By Sonal Srivastava In Indic epistemological parlance, abhava , absence, is not a mere void. It is a distinct way of examining reality through the lens of nonexistence. Take, for instance, the air inside a pot. When the pot is merely a lump of clay, air inside the pot is absent but only in a…
As India rises economically, its food processing sector must move to create global value – transforming farm surplus to innovation, opportunity and competitiveness India stands at a defining economic juncture. As the nation advances toward becoming the world’s third-largest economy, growth can no longer be measured solely in aggregate output. It must increasingly be assessed…
Kyiv: Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a gathering of the Yalta European Strategy here that resolving territorial issues in the Russia-Ukraine war could be left to a direct meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin. Joining online from Washington and touting a possible future trilateral between the leaders of US, Ukraine and Russia, Witkoff asserted that…
As more Big Names are linked to Epstein, the needle of suspicion moves closer home Shortly after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Randy Andy Andrew, was arrested by the police for his close association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates suddenly quit the AI summit in Delhi where he was scheduled to make…
Last evening, I overheard a couple of seemingly learned men immersed in an avid discussion as I took my daily stroll by the poolside. Their topic, quite to my mind’s delight, was the soul. But the treatment they meted out to it was mindless enough to quickly turn my delight into sheer dismay. The diabolical…
Do elders give good advice? Sometimes. Young’uns need to filter it through their own context When Sam Altman told an auditorium full of IITians that “listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people make,” the applause was only to be expected. He seems to have been referring to traditional career advice in particular….
On 10 February 2026, the ministry of defence quietly placed on its website a draft that may prove to be one of the most consequential reforms in India’s military modernisation journey: the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2026. At first glance, it appears to streamline categories, tweak indigenous content thresholds, and fast-track trials. But embedded within…
Child marriage exists in India amid a web of paradoxes, and it is perhaps this very complexity that has allowed the crime to survive and even thrive for centuries. Even as the country has moved onto a war footing to eliminate child marriage by 2030, the journey has remained uphill and deeply challenging. Child marriage…