Humanity has obviously gone through various transformations in how we communicate with each other, starting from languages to fiction-creation to books and then mass media that print and TV ushered in the last century. Each of these growth spurts have caused social transformations, and each changes till date are absorbed without a complete collapse of…
The globalisation of English has taken a lot of the foreignness out of foreign travel Bunny and I are in Torino, Italy. And Bunny is eager to try out the conversational Italian she has picked up through assiduous practice on the Duolingo app on her cell phone. We go for a morning coffee to Caffe…
At the Bespoke Art Gallery at Ahmedabad, it is the English Methodist hymn that hums in our senses as we glimpse the world’s oldest materials, pen and paper and clay that extol the beauty of the earth as trees, as ceramics and a steel wired sculpture to harness World Environment Day that falls on June…
One of the most beautiful and mystical states in the Sufi tradition is to experience the richness and abundance of a fakir. Only he is truly abundant who has given up attachment to all material wealth and chosen to accumulate spiritual wealth – basking in the glory of divine love. Fakir is one of those terms…
“Cheese” is what the English-speaking world says when getting a photograph clicked. We Indians have come up with our own “Paneer” for similar situations. In Estonia, it’s “Eesti” – the country’s name in Estonian. Estonians are of course very proud of their achievements since they regained their independence from the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1991….
Securing alternative routes to the landlocked Northeast In the intricate geopolitical landscape of South Asia, few regions hold as much strategic vulnerability and national importance as India’s Siliguri Corridor. Commonly referred to as the “Chicken’s Neck,” this narrow, 20–22 km wide strip of land in North Bengal is the sole terrestrial connection between mainland India…
For Indians the allure of the yellow metal both for its ornamental value and as an asset class, is as old as the country’s civilisation dating back to the times of Indus Valley Civilisation or perhaps, even earlier. While that attraction for gold has not diminished over centuries, its supply side has failed to keep…
In the evolving terrain of constitutional law, the Indian judiciary finds itself at the crossroads of liberty and latent harm, where speech is no longer what it merely says, but what it silently signals. As the architecture of expression evolves, especially within digital ecosystems, courts are compelled to look beyond the literal and into the…
The recent elections in Jawaharlal University Delhi were in the news. How Left and Right ideologies clashed and the election were contested intensely as ever. I was immediately reminded of my days in the University of Allahabad in the late seventies where I had an engrossing peripheral view of the ‘student Politics’ of those days…
Written by: Inder Raj Ahluwalia The Fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjan Dev’s life and achievements played a key role in shaping Indian history and spiritual traditions. Preaching Guru Nanak Dev’s mission, Guru Arjan Dev propagated humility, devotion, and surrender to God’s will. He imparted several teachings on important issues, such as acceptance of God’s will, trust,…
