Tomorrow morning, May 18, 2026, at the Thiruvananthapuram Central Stadium, a man born in a modest home in Nettoor, Ernakulam, will place his hand on the Constitution and become the 13th Chief Minister of Kerala. Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka, Mallikarjun Kharge, Tamil Nadu’s new Chief Minister Joseph Vijay, Karnataka’s Siddaramaiah, Telangana’s...
They called him the Ghost. For three years, Izz al-Din al-Haddad survived Israeli assassinations, American bounties, drone strikes, and a war that flattened everything around him. He used Israeli hostages as human shields. He moved through rubble like smoke. He outlived Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Sinwar, Mohammed Deif — every commander...
While the world watched Trump and Xi exchange pleasantries at Zhongnanhai, something far more significant slipped past the diplomatic theatre: America quietly traded Taiwan’s security for a trade truce. And India, sitting thousands of kilometres away, apparently had nothing to say about it. Trump’s Beijing delegation included Elon Musk (Tesla),...
India’s love story with gold is centuries old. From weddings to festivals, from savings to status, gold is not just a metal here — it is emotion, security, and family pride. But suddenly, people across India woke up to shocking headlines: Gold prices jumping by nearly ₹11,000 Silver crossing ₹3...
India is one of the very few countries where crossing a state border can feel like entering another cultural universe. Different food, different scripts, different accents, different histories — and most importantly, different languages. That diversity is not India’s weakness. It is India’s operating system. Today, however, the language debate...
There is a particular kind of political theatre that plays out every time a state election verdict turns in favour of the Congress. The votes are counted. The numbers are clear. And yet, for days — sometimes weeks — the real battle begins not in the streets but in closed...
There is a quiet anxiety spreading across office floors, open-plan cubicles, and LinkedIn feeds. People are watching AI eat through tasks they spent years mastering — writing, coding, analysis, customer support, financial modelling — and they are telling themselves, “I’ll be fine. My role is different.” Most of them are...
Most people think cloud computing started when Amazon launched AWS in 2006. They are partially right and completely wrong at the same time. The real origin goes back further. In 1961, MIT computer scientist John McCarthy stood at a convocation and said something that sounded radical: computing would someday be...
More than 10 days after the massive victory of the Congress-led UDF in Kerala, the biggest question still remains unanswered — who will become the next Chief Minister? The shocking part is not just the delay. It is the open power struggle happening inside the party while the people who...
When news came out about a student named Siddharth scoring 99.25% while reportedly studying only around four focused hours a day, many parents were shocked. In a country where students are often pushed into 12–15 hours of study, coaching centers, endless tuition classes, and sleepless nights, his routine looked almost...
