We’re often told that more useful than “good” answers are new questions. If, as most of humanity hope, the Iran-Israel ceasefire lasts for a decent while, some of
Every morning, as I get up and make my coffee, I wonder what might have happened the previous night in Ukraine, Gaza, Kashmir, Israel or Iran. I am shown bombs
In the 1990s, growing up in Paradip in India’s Odisha state, a town of salt winds and monsoon-soaked mornings, I lived in what the Greeks might have called
Did he, or didn’t he? That is a question that remains unanswered. US President Donald Trump continues to claim that he stopped the clash between India and Pakistan after
“Anyone leading our world?” That in capital letters was the heading I gave two weeks back to my weekly column in this space. Last night, i.e. on Monday the
Things in the US have taken a serious turn during the past week. On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramped up its raids in Los Angeles, taking people
“Put yourself in their place and see their difficulties,” says the knowing one. “Dwelling on your sorrow and your difficulties as a dissenter is not just self-centered, it’s
While the Indian mainstream media remained obsessed about Operation Sindoor and reported uncritically even as the Prime Minister and members of his party made political capital from the recent Indo-
When I was 18, I went to university to study physics. I was young, lonely, and searching for salvation. After a year of frustration, I came across an opportunity to
The Preamble to the US Declaration of Independence starts, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’ It goes on to list the values which the Founding Fathers believed a
On a page titled “TO LINGER WITH,” this website reproduces lines that seem to merit reflection, including a verse written by the 19th-century American poet, James Russell Lowell:
Then
I cannot write about Mother Earth, the dear home to all of us, without emotions of joy and admiration, tears and sorrow. In deep forests and on high mountains, by
