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The Opium Wars stand as one of the most consequential chapters in modern Asian history. These mid-19th century conflicts between Qing China and Western powers, led primarily by Britain, reshaped global trade, imperial power, and the...
Every few months, a case shatters the national conscience. In December 2012 it was a young physiotherapy student on a Delhi bus. In August 2024 it was a trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital, and in...
Ask an Indian to Lower the Volume and See the Angry Face
Every morning I step into a Mumbai local with a book in my bag and hope in my heart. The hope usually dies by...
India’s Growth Story Has a Casteist Footnote Nobody Reads
India tells itself a comforting story – that caste was a village issue, a feudal remnant, a dying way of life, a thing that...
What Germany’s Apprentices Know That India’s Toppers Don’t
I have spent close to 14 years moving between two worlds that most people assume are separate: the classroom and the industry floor. I...
The Audit We Promise After Every Building Falls Down
A five-storey building in Satya Niketan fell on a Sunday afternoon. It had been under renovation for months, reopened to tenants in August 2026...
What Ancient Bharat Understood About Faith That Many Hindus Today Have Forgotten
There is a verse in the Rig Veda, in the Nasadiya Sukta, the Hymn of Creation, that ends not with a declaration but with...
Mumbai Is Nepal’s Future: Just With the Floods Coming From the Other Direction
On the morning of 26 August 2026, a stretch of the Trishuli River in central Nepal simply stopped behaving like a river. A section...
Why India’s Workplaces Keep Failing the Women They Promised to Protect
13 years after Parliament passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, an uncomfortable question refuses to go...
The ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Nobody in Parliament Wants to Mention
India loves to call itself the world's fastest growing large economy. It loves the phrase "demographic dividend" even more. But a recent NITI Aayog...
India Cannot Become a $5 Trillion Economy by Treating Informal Workers as Invisible
India wants to be a $5 trillion economy. Every budget speech repeats the number. Every investor deck has a slide on it. What almost...
Subsidised to Sickness: How Indian Food Policy Built a Health Crisis
India has built an entire civilisation on the argument that we know our bodies better than anyone else. Grandmothers know. WhatsApp forwards know. The...
Jharkhand’s Paper Leak Protest: Students Fighting for Justice or Politicians Fighting for Power?
Behind the anger on the streets lies a bigger question: Is this purely a youth movement against recruitment failures, or has Jharkhand’s political rivalry...
Why a Booming Book Market Does Not Mean India Reads More
There is a particular sound that libraries used to make. It was not silence, not exactly. It was the sound of pages turning, chairs...