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Forgotten after every plane crash is the terrifying complexity of pilots’ jobs. Their work involves precision, pressure & unpredictability. Their lives are often defined by fatigue, anxiety, even depression. Then there’s aircraft reliability & airport congestion Every air tragedy brings the role of pilots into sharp focus. Never, though,is there enough appreciation of what a…

We all need privacy – to misspeak, to err, to be intimate To hold one opinion but voice another, is this inauthentic? To conduct oneself as if one is being permanently surveilled, does that help democratic life? In her book Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, British sociologist Tiffany Jenkins traverses…

By Rajiv Mehrotra It is impossible to turn away. Violence in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza are coarsening our sensibilities, continue to dull our capacity for shock, and steadily erode our sense of agency. How do we carry the weight of such pain? How do we face cruelty without being broken by it? I remember…

Each year, hundreds of government and private scholarships are announced across India to make education more accessible to students from economically or socially disadvantaged communities. But how many of these actually reach the students who need them the most? To explore this question, the Youth Dreamers Foundation (YDF) conducted a survey in 2023 with 102…

Israel has been threatening to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities for years. It finally did on Friday morning, also hitting ballistic missile sites and taking out Iran’s top military brass and several nuclear scientists. Dubbed ‘Operation Rising Lion,’ the attack reportedly came in waves, involved over 200 Israeli Air Force aircraft that dropped over 330 munitions…

Assessing and possibly admiring Israel’s strike against Iran aimed at denuclearising the country, hawks in the New Delhi establishment would be reflecting with some regret of a time in the early 1980s when Israel offered India plans for a similar operation to take out Islamabad’s then incipient nuclear program. Peaceniks would be relieved it did…

Introduction In the aftermath of the Operation Sindoor Congress has been highlighting Pakistan’s surrender to India in 1971 Bangladesh war during Smt Indira Gandhi’s premiership. However, according to experts, the exercise is futile. According to them, while both achieved their respective objectives, they differ significantly in context, scale, and impact and should be viewed within…

Sahil was learning to walk. He took tiny steps while trying to balance his cute little body. He was born to Sanjay and Saundarya thirteen months ago. Sahil meant the whole world to them. Theirs was a lower-middle-class family. Sometimes, finances, or rather the lack of them, gave the family a hard time. Sanjay was…