Opinion

Every month or so, my teenaged daughter, Divya, screams for my help while she’s in her bedroom or bathroom. “Come quickly!” she yells, and I know exactly what I need to do: grab a weapon. This weapon is usually a fly swatter, broom or rolled-up...

Drivers all over the world are unhappy about rising fuel prices. Some have found interesting ways to protest the prices, but none more uniquely than Subhranshu Samal did at his recent wedding in Bhubaneswar. As widely reported, the 47-year-old grocery shop owner rode a bicycle...

India is accelerating fast on the highway of the digital economy and currently boasts of a superior ecosystem which has encouraged a thousand innovations across the spectrum. We have already hit a century when it comes to unicorns in startups with a total valuation of...

The challenge in our agricultural landscape has seen a marked shift. From who is a farmer in India to how we collate the data on every farmer in India. Now, governments are beset with an even bigger challenge of profiling farmers in India. Or creating...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dashed off to three countries in Europe from 2-4 May 2022. He went to Germany, Denmark and for a stopover in Paris on the way back home. This is his first visit to Europe since the war in Ukraine last month...

“There are no shortcuts in life!’ Or is there? “Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life” is a recently published book by the Oxford University mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. He argues that shortcuts are more common than most think in all...

Eating omnivorously and ubiquitously has become the consumption norm of our times! This new Epicureanism of unregulated gluttony has been the driving force of our modern lives. Gastronomical innovations and transformations seem to bombard the matters and manners of food in our times. Rapid and...

When you open a new bank account and set up online access to your account, a bank employee may say something like this to you: “Do not share your password with anyone!” And you may find yourself thinking, “Of course not. Do I look like...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first of its kind, was sent to space to investigate the cosmic matter by analysing the light coming from it. The HST has shown that the distant galaxies are more redder than the nearest galaxy and the phenomena is...

If you’ve ever been scuba diving in the ocean, you’ve probably come across schools of fish. Unlike the majority of youths, fish enjoy being in schools. They spend not just weekdays in schools, but also weekends. That’s because schools promote learning, and fish know they...