A viral claim, a convicted rioter, and what it tells us about America’s culture war in 2025 A video is going viral across social media. In it, a man stands at a public podium in Texas and declares that Hindus and Muslims have come to America to eradicate Christianity. Many...
Somewhere in Rajasthan, a family is looking at a cancelled exam notice for the third year in a row. Somewhere in Maharashtra, a farmer is standing in his orchard watching ruined Alphonso mangoes fall from trees that could not handle the extreme heat. And in a government press briefing, an...
For years, many Indians believed wealth was created only through business, real estate, gold, or luck. But over the last decade, one financial tool has silently changed the lives of ordinary salaried people, IT employees, shop owners, freelancers, and even small-town families. That tool is SIP. Not because it makes...
For years, society pushed one message into the minds of students: “Learn coding. Become a software developer. That is where the future is.” But the future quietly changed while most people were still attending coding bootcamps. Today, AI can write code in seconds. A junior developer may spend three hours...
Inspired by a viral post, expanded for the city’s real residents — solo, partnered, or parented. A Bengaluru man named Akshay recently went viral for sharing seven tweaks that helped him cut his monthly burn without torturing his lifestyle. The internet nodded. Then went back to ordering on Swiggy at...
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that nobody talks about honestly. Not the exhaustion from working too hard. Not the exhaustion from doing too much. The exhaustion from wanting too much — from carrying a list of experiences you never actually chose, handed to you quietly by Instagram feeds,...
There is a saying that has quietly governed two of the most consequential professions in human civilization — that a doctor must not feel, and a police officer must not sympathize. That sentiment, the argument goes, is the enemy of duty. That to do your job well, you must first...
The Businesses That Refused to Die Every decade, India gets a new crisis. 1991, the balance of payments collapse. 2008, the global contagion. 2016, demonetisation. 2020, the pandemic. Each time, thousands of businesses fold, millions lose savings, and the country spends five years rebuilding what one year destroyed. And yet,...
Let’s be honest about what is happening this weekend. America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has flown all the way to India. He visited Kolkata, took a tour of the Taj Mahal in Agra, walked through the palaces of Jaipur, and is now in New Delhi for a...
There are moments in political history when a single stupid sentence by a powerful man creates the exact enemy he feared. India just had one of those moments. And the ruling establishment, true to form, is making it worse with every panicked move it makes. The Judge, The Remark, The...
