The Helle Lyng episode is not about Modi. It is about what happens when inconvenient questions find no answer and an uncomfortable mirror. It started with nine words shouted across a hall in Oslo. During a joint press statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr...
For every student staring at a blank future — and every parent staring at their child. The results are out. Or they are about to be. WhatsApp groups are exploding. Relatives are already calling. And somewhere in your house, there is a quiet, suffocating pressure building — a pressure that...
On May 12, 2026, Twisha Sharma — 33, MBA graduate, former Miss Pune contestant, content creator — was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills, barely five months after her wedding. The post-mortem at AIIMS Bhopal confirmed death by “antemortem hanging by ligature” and noted multiple antemortem...
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...
