Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn
November 2025 marks the sixth anniversary of COVID-19, the deadliest pandemic in modern history, which brought humankind, with all its advanced systems, science, and technologies, to a complete halt. Even the most developed nations, with superior healthcare, appeared helpless, no better than rural hospitals in poor countries. But does one even...
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Carbon sequestration: A sustainable strategy for climate change mitigation
01 November 2025 | Himanshu Verma -
Building the foundations of India’s digital sovereignty
01 November 2025 | Satya Samyukta -
The moral conscience of India’s awakening
01 November 2025 | Santhosh Mathew -
Prabhat Pheris: When Delhi awakens to the hymns of devotion
01 November 2025 | Vivek Shukla -
Honouring Sardar Patel, the Bismarck of India
01 November 2025 | PNS -
Sardar Patel: The iron man who forged a united India
31 October 2025 | Anoop Bose -
From khadi to diyas: How PM Modi’s Swadeshi call rekindled India’s self-reliant spirit
31 October 2025 | Shiv Prakash
Sardar Patel’s vision for India
In the year 2025, India, the largest democracy and fourth-largest economy in the world, celebrated 77 years of carving out its rightful place on the global horizon. This saga of the evolution of India is characterised by consistent economic growth, stable and secure political administration facilitating the development of capabilities....
Nationalism and the fault lines of faith
What is nationalism? It is that feeling among a society that demonstrates that people can breathe together, or rather, their souls can breathe together. The question is: Does this happen in our country, India? Many Indians do not think so. It is necessary to go into the reasons for this. Only...
When festivity becomes fury, belief loses its fragrance
Thus, one more Diwali passed — filling the air with smog, stuffing human lungs with soot, turning currency into char, and additionally, this time, drawing flak from across oceans. I doubt if the people of Ayodhya had burst crackers and defiled the pristine atmosphere of their city with fumes and...
Cyclone Motha: India’s tryst with the tempests
India’s eastern coast is prone to cyclones and storms that hit it at regular intervals. Nature once again tested India’s resilience this week when Cyclone Motha hit eastern states of Odisha, Telangana unleashing torrential rains causing death and destruction. Railway lines lay submerged, trains halted for hours, and passengers stranded...
India’s development journey: Why we lagged behind China
This column serves as a follow-up to my previous article from October 2023 — India’s Economic Journey from Socialism to Self-Reliance. Since its publication, I have received numerous personal responses from readers, with a common theme: India is progressing, but why is it lagging behind China? There are several reasons...
How consumer trust can make natural farming scalable and self-sustaining
India’s natural farming movement has made considerable success on the supply side, with policies, pilots, and farmer trainings gaining traction. However, a key pillar — consumer demand — remains underdeveloped, thus preventing it from reaching its full potential. In the absence of a strong market pull that is supported by...
Central Reserve Police Force: Guardians of internal unity
The Central Reserve Police Force, which has been specifically tasked to deal with all internal security issues consequent to the submission of its recommendations by the Group of Ministers set up in April 2000, and acceptance of the same by the Cabinet Committee on Security on 11 May 2001, has...
