We spend most of our lives building relationships. Friends, colleagues, relatives, neighbours, professional contacts, social-media followers — the list keeps growing. We often mistake the size of our social circle for the strength of our support system. But age has a brutal way of exposing that illusion. As a person...
What if the person who makes you angriest is not necessarily the person destroying your peace? What if that person is revealing exactly where you have no peace? Paramahansa Yogananda saw marriage very differently from today’s swipe-left, swipe-right culture. He described marriage as a “laboratory” where selfishness, bad temper and...
For thousands of years, producing meat, milk and eggs meant raising an animal. That equation is now being rewritten. A new food industry is emerging in which microbes can manufacture milk proteins, fermentation can produce egg proteins, and animal cells can grow actual meat—without raising and slaughtering an animal. And...
A patient walks into a corporate hospital with a medical problem. Somewhere inside the building, another number may begin moving: Revenue. That is the uncomfortable reality modern healthcare must confront. A surgeon earning ₹1 crore a year looks like the ultimate success story. A prestigious hospital. A huge salary. Expensive...
Nvidia is already around 10% below its peak. Google, Meta and Tesla are all under heavy pressure, with some sessions seeing declines of more than 2%. The S&P 500 is also feeling the impact. The bigger story is what is happening to the AI trade — the enormous amount of...
September 3, 2026 may eventually be remembered as one of those dates when technology quietly crossed another major threshold. OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest and most capable AI model, and the significance of this launch goes far beyond another improvement in a chatbot. For years, we have watched...
For decades, India has celebrated its rise as an IT superpower. And rightly so. From Bengaluru to Hyderabad, Chennai to Pune, Indian engineers have become an essential part of the global technology industry. Companies such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and others built enormous businesses serving some of the world’s...
One question we often forget to ask before trusting someone is simple: Do they genuinely respect people, or do they only value people when they are useful to them? A person who repeatedly cheats, betrays, manipulates, or abandons others should not be assumed to become loyal simply because you are...
Kathmandu is asking a question the world cannot comfortably avoid: When a climate-vulnerable country suffers a catastrophic disaster, who should answer for it? Nepal is now confronting one of the most devastating disasters in its recent history. Floods triggered by a glacial collapse and cascading hazards in the Himalayas have...
We often speak about the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita, Bible and Quran as though each appeared one day, fully written by a single person. History tells a much more complicated—and far more fascinating—story. The first thing we must separate is faith from history. Faith asks what believers hold sacred or...
