Special Reports
Shekhar Maramraju I had to travel to Vijayawada on business to meet someone. I could have driven, but the thought of spending hours behind the wheel felt monotonous. Driving demands your attention every moment. A train journey, on the other hand, allows you to surrender yourself to time. So, almost impulsively, I chose the train…
Rammohan Pothuri Whenever students take to the streets over a genuine grievance, society instinctively sympathizes with them. We applaud their courage, express solidarity on social media, and lament the state of affairs. Yet, when the time comes to stand beside them in their struggle for justice, they are often left to fight alone. That is…
Fresh coaching controversy raises questions over governance, transparency and institutional reforms Special Correspondent The cracks within the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) are widening. What began as criticism from the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) over alleged violations of the HCA and BCCI rule books has now found resonance from within the HCA itself. The latest controversy…
If there is one image that captures the sheer complexity of quantum computing, it is perhaps this: Google’s quantum computer operates at temperatures close to -273°C—colder than outer space itself. Layer upon layer of refrigeration technology is needed merely to keep it alive before it can perform computations. Now imagine a quantum computer that sits…
Dr Sandhya Bombay Three Puranas—the Matsya, Vayu, and Brahmanda—preserve the names of every king who ruled after the Kurukshetra War and before the historical king Mahapadma Nanda. They preserve even the duration of each king’s reign, down to the minutest detail. This detailing continues for every king of the Nanda, Maurya, Sunga, Kanva, and Satavahana…
MS Shanker Every Indian knows that Siachen is the world’s highest battlefield. Few realise that it has claimed more Indian soldiers through its unforgiving weather than through enemy fire. At temperatures plunging below -50°C and at altitudes where oxygen levels are nearly half of those at sea level, Siachen tests not just human endurance, but…
For generations, we were taught that Bharat was merely a land repeatedly invaded and populated by successive waves of migrants. Modern genetic science is steadily challenging that simplistic narrative. Increasingly, archaeology, genetics and anthropology are revealing something far more profound—India was not merely a transit point in human history but one of the most important…
Students are often described as the future of a nation, and rightly so. They are the builders of tomorrow’s Bharat. During our freedom struggle and in the decades that followed Independence, student participation in public life played an important role in shaping the nation’s democratic character. Times, however, have changed. While young people continue to…
By all conventional measures of success, Professor Ashoke Sen should have spent his life in the world’s most celebrated scientific institutions. He had studied at some of the finest centres of learning, worked at America’s premier physics laboratories, won one of the richest prizes in science worth $3 million—nearly three times the Nobel Prize money—and…
K.S. Nagarajan Bharat’s civilisational foundation rests on Sanatan Dharma—a way of life that evolved over millennia on the principles of Dharma, duty, virtue and social responsibility. At the heart of this philosophy was the concept of an interdependent society, where knowledge, governance, commerce and skilled occupations complemented one another for the collective welfare of society….
