India celebrates dams. India celebrates leaders. India does not celebrate the people crushed under both. Her name was Budhni Manjhiyain, a Santhal tribal woman from what is now Jharkhand (then Bihar). She did not chase power. Power walked into her village — and ruined her life in minutes. The Day...
Let’s be blunt. India is not facing a tourism slowdown. Foreigners are coming back in healthy numbers. Airports are busy. Hotels are full. Heritage sites across the country are doing just fine. But one name breaks this positive trend badly. Hampi. In FY 2023–24, around 20,000 foreign tourists visited Hampi....
🚆 Once a year, a train rolls out of Mumbai carrying not just passengers, but purpose. It doesn’t promise comfort. It promises change. For 15 days, this train cuts across India — from the plains to the coasts, through cities, villages, and dusty junctions — carrying 500 restless minds who believe...
🕉️ (An explosive Nishani.in thought piece) ⚖️ The Illusion of “Personal” Karma We’ve all been taught the simplified version — “What goes around comes around.” Do good, and life rewards you. Do bad, and life slaps you. Neat theory. But dangerously incomplete. Because karma isn’t a solo journey. It’s a shared...
Once upon a time, when Europe was still fighting over spices it couldn’t even name properly, there was a coastal town in Kerala called Kollam — or as the world knew it then, Quilon. It wasn’t just a dot on the map. It was the map. The Birth of Kollam...
The moment you drift far enough away from your everyday chaos, you start seeing what you refused to look at up close. That’s what happened to NASA astronaut Ron Garan, who spent 178 days in space. When he looked down at Earth — one fragile blue orb hanging in endless...
For ten days every year, Bengal stops breathing — and starts dancing. More than 3,000 pandals rise across Kolkata like pop-up galaxies. Some recreate ancient temples, some reflect modern anxieties, some dare to imagine worlds we haven’t yet built. And for ten sleepless nights, millions flood the streets — walking,...
On 27 January 1948, three days before an assassin’s bullet ended his life, Mahatma Gandhi stood at the shrine of Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki in Mehrauli, Delhi. The city was trembling under communal riots. Mosques were desecrated, temples were defiled, homes were burned. Gandhi, frail and fasting, called it what it...
We live like this is our first and only life. But deep inside, there’s a nagging whisper: What if it isn’t? Ancient texts say it. Near-death survivors describe it. Children reveal it before adults hush them. And researchers, not mystics, have documented it. Maybe we’ve lived before. Maybe we chose...
A Nation Boiling Over For the first time in modern England’s history, more than one lakh people marched through the streets of London, not for a royal coronation, not for a football parade, but to stop immigration. The slogans weren’t about pride or victory—they were about anger, frustration, and fear....
