As US and Israel’s war continues against Iran, Gulf countries are really suffering. So dire has their security situation become, that there are leaked reports of Gulf officials pondering military action against Iran, and these have to be taken seriously.How can a region full of US military bases, personnel and hardware, be so vulnerable to…
Ashok Vohra Jainism is one of the oldest religions of the world. According to it, every living being is a soul and has the potentiality of attaining liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Mahavir, the twenty-fourth Tirthankar of Jainism, treated men and women equally. There is no gender bias in his teachings. However,…
People have always wanted to know the future. Long ago, they asked fortune tellers, astrologers, and people with crystal balls. Later, they started trusting “experts.” But experts can be wrong too. For example, just before the big Wall Street Crash of 1929, a famous economist said stocks would stay high forever—which turned out to be…
Will markets for prediction be any better at guessing the future than ‘experts’? Can they be manipulated? What will be, will be, but people want to see tomorrow, today. Our curiosity birthed oracles, astrologers, crystal gazers, and their analogues. When superstition became unfashionable, “experts” took over. And they could be spectacularly inaccurate, too: days before…
It’s a blockbuster, at the movies and at home “Everyone else has watched it. Except us,” Kamala declared angrily. I thought she was talking about Trump’s confusing press conferences. But the missus was having mid-life FOMO about something more predictable: Dhurandhar 2 – The Revenge. All the word-of-mouth publicity is propelling the movie to delirious…
Textpocalypse is near, and it has put authenticity in crisis. If any text can be generated by AI, how do we know what is authored ? Today, LLMs are becoming better and better at writing. Tomorrow, they may do something more. Right now, as Princeton researchers have established, AI systems mirror the human tendency to…
It is said that ‘history repeats itself’ and it is also said that ‘when we forget history, geography is altered’. While exact events do not repeat in identical form but similar conditions often produce similar outcomes. So ignoring the lessons of the past can lead to conflicts and decisions that not only alter the course…
Our journey continued from Lavasa toward the ancient caves—a transition not just in geography but in inner experience. It took us about two and a half hours to reach Bedsa Caves near Kamshet. The first hour of the drive felt almost dreamlike as we moved through forested hills, the road gently curving alongside a quiet lake that mirrored the sky. Nature…
India’s latest gas shortages, triggered by the current Middle East conflict, highlight how vulnerable its industrial energy system remains. From textiles and food processing to chemicals and metals, manufacturing relies heavily on fossil fuels to generate heat, much of it supplied by imported oil and gas. When global disruptions tighten supplies, factories face soaring costs or…
Gas is the unseen backbone of modern India—fueling kitchens, fertiliser production, industry, and increasingly transport. Since India is an energy-dependent country, each geopolitical shock—sanctions, conflict, or blockades—triggers cascading disruptions: cooking gas shortages, price spikes, slower fertiliser output, rising transport costs, and weakened industrial activity. Besides Heavy reliance on imports, inadequate infrastructure, and persistent policy and…