There is nothing wrong with questioning the outcomes of foreign policy. In fact, a healthy democracy must encourage such scrutiny. But when a senior Congress leader like P. Chidambaram, a former Finance and Home Minister, publicly asks what tangible benefits Bharat has derived from BRICS, the timing and tone of the criticism deserve to be…
AI has discovered the perfect time machine: one that can also fix our hair, clothes and questionable fashion choices There is a new epidemic sweeping across social media. Thankfully, it is neither contagious nor fatal. It merely threatens to make us look considerably better than we actually did four decades ago. I first noticed it…
For decades, Bharat was told that manufacturing was not its natural strength, that its future lay primarily in services and that China and the East Asian economies had already occupied the industrial space. That narrative is now being challenged by reality. A manufacturing transformation is underway—and its scale would have appeared almost unimaginable a decade…
Gone are the days of “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”. We are now confronting a new blurb: “an Apple a day keeps the client in sway.” The way new models are being pushed into the market, it may soon be an Apple a day, every day! Today’s news of Apple launching its…
Silver has had a wild ride. It went from about $30 an ounce in early 2025 to an all-time high of $121.67 on January 29, 2026. Then it fell hard. As of early September 2026, it is trading around $66 to $67, which is about 45% below that peak. Along the way, a lot of…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayulu In the sacred hymns of the Ṛgvedic tradition, Sage Gādhi raises his prayer to Agni through the revered metres of Anuṣṭubh and Triṣṭubh. With profound devotion, he invokes Agni not merely as the visible fire upon the altar, but as the eternal divine presence that connects the worlds of gods and mortals. Agni…
King Dhritarashtra spoke with a voice sharpened by grief and disappointment. “Sanjaya,” he said, “you have described the immeasurable fury of the war, yet you have remained silent about the conduct of my son. I heard that Dharmaraja shattered Duryodhana’s chariot, stripping away his dignity before the assembled kings. Did he abandon the battlefield in…
The Saptamatrika Temple is situated at Sanyasi Kuppam near Tirubuvanai in the Union Territory of Puducherry. This little-known shrine is remarkable for its rare group of large stone idols of the Saptamatrikas. Unlike the smaller panels commonly seen in temples, the idols here are almost human-sized, giving the shrine a distinctive appearance. The present temple…
New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to India for the BRICS summit, his first in seven years, will present a key opportunity to further normalise bilateral ties through expanded trade and investment as Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to host him for bilateral talks on Saturday at a time of global geopolitical uncertainty….
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it is not transferring to itself the Satya Niketan building collapse case being heard by the Delhi High Court as “things have started moving”. A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahdevan said it does not want to disturb the existing situation and the high court…
