By Sandeep Chakravorty Today, it is almost unthinkable that a busy international airport shuts down completely for an entire day. It is not a one-time exception; it happens year after year. Not only is the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali closed to all flights, but all transportation on the island comes to a grinding…
For Israel, it isn’t over till Iran’s regime is savagely weakened. For Iran, it isn’t over till the world feels unbearable pain. For Trump, it isn’t clear when and/or how he can say it’s over. Biggest risk: in 5 years, Iran can be like Libya or North Korea or Pakistan Countries often go to war…
Many of us prefer reading about exercise, rather than doing it. We also cherrypick bits that suit us If only reading about exercise counted as exercise, we could all be as fit as Ronaldo. And of all the reading we looove to do on the topic, nothing hits quite like studies reporting the yuge health…
…The world pays. Trump must make sure Israel and Iran stop targeting W Asia energy fields Trump’s sharp reaction to Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field – and Tehran’s swift retaliation against Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub – captured a moment when world energy markets and supplies teetered close to disaster. Yesterday was,…
Why we’ll never be short of gas O what’s the matter, Shanta mine So pale and vainly loitering? The veg has withered in your fridge, And no cookers hiss.I see your worried, wrinkled brow,With anguish moist coz dinner’s due;And from your eye a salty tearIs fast falling too. I met a mantri, replied the lass,…
If a big fight happens in the Persian Gulf, it doesn’t stay there — the whole world feels it Recently, there were attacks between Israel and Iran on very important energy places. One was the South Pars gas field (one of the biggest in the world), and another was Ras Laffan, which supplies a huge…
Many of us prefer reading about exercise, rather than doing it. We also cherrypick bits that suit us If reading about exercise counted as exercise, we’d all be as fit as Cristiano Ronaldo. But the truth is, many of us enjoy reading about fitness more than actually moving our bodies. We also like to pick…
In February 2026, the Bombay High Court ruled that a child raised exclusively by a single mother cannot be forced to carry the father’s surname and caste in official records, emphasising that official documentation should reflect the lived reality of the family rather than outdated patriarchal assumptions. It stirred conversations online, I shared my views as…
While we are still debating whether AI will take our jobs, it has quietly taken something far more consequential. It has entered the state. Not as an experiment. Not as a pilot. But as infrastructure. Over the past few months, the signals have been hard to ignore. The Reserve Bank of India is seeking feedback…
Can there be a city as evocative—and romantic—as Venice ? As actor and art lover Sharmila Tagore stood and gazed at Paresh Maity’s magnum opus of Venice compositions as resonant embers on canvas as well as dulcet drawings, Art Alive’s unveiling took on shades of memory, experience and historicity. And Sunaina Anand can well pat…