Between January and September 2026, about 12,700 technology professionals moved from the United States back to India. This estimate comes from Xpheno, a Bengaluru talent firm. It is an estimate, not an official count. Even so, the direction is clear, and it is worth understanding. A number that keeps growing...
In the early hours of 11 October, a Mini Cooper hit a scooter near Kochi airport. Three young people died: Devika, Gopika and Iyas. They were students who also worked part-time, and they were riding home after tea. Police say the 19-year-old driver had drunk at three bars that night,...
When a generation feels ignored, a sarcastic joke can become a political movement. And when that movement reaches the streets, the real question is no longer who started it, but why so many people felt the need to join. Imagine a country where young people study for years, prepare for...
Look up tonight. Every star you see is old light. Some of it left its source before the dinosaurs existed. You are not seeing the universe as it is. You are seeing its ghosts. That single fact changes everything about how we should think about space. How humans started looking...
We are taught a simple formula from childhood: Study well → get good marks → get a good job → earn a good salary → live a successful life. But there is another question nobody asks often enough: What if the child who was never interested in following that formula...
Gen Z is using AI to rehearse salary negotiations, office fights, relationships and even personal crises. But there is a dangerous line between using AI as a tool and allowing it to become your judge, doctor, therapist and decision-maker. Something strange is happening. A young employee wants a salary increase...
Every year, millions of students walk out of Indian colleges with a degree in their hands. Engineering degrees. MBA degrees. Commerce degrees. Science degrees. Computer science degrees. They have attended lectures, written examinations, submitted assignments and memorized enough information to survive years of academic evaluation. Then they enter the real...
There is a financial calculation most Indian parents never make. We calculate the home loan EMI. We calculate the car EMI. We calculate the monthly grocery bill. But we rarely calculate the total cost of raising a child from kindergarten to college. And when we finally do, the number can...
Old Indian texts warn us about a dangerous kind of person: someone who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. This person talks fast, acts proud, and looks down on others. Our ancestors met such people too. They wrote down ways to deal with them. These lessons still work today,...
There are moments in democracy when history is written not inside Parliament, but on the streets. The resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be remembered as one such moment. But an equally important question deserves to be asked: Who really forced this resignation? Was it the Congress party?...
