What it Takes to Do Your Duty with Responsibility!
An Unusual Story of Valour: Donning all the Three Uniforms of the Services The Highest-Ranking Woman Officer in Indian Armed Forces, Vice Admiral Arti Sarin, talks to PP Rtn. AKS Hemant Bhasin in his TrueRotarian Podcast ...
Faith, Desire, And Philosophy. Pavan Verma in discussion with Javed Akhtar
A literary event in New Delhi saw Javed Akhtar discussing Pavan Varma’s new book, “The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River.” A conversation on faith, desire, and the fading art of debate, reflected the ...
The New Megahit Matrix, Courtesy Dhurandhar
Just a week since the release of Dhurandhar- 2, writer-director Aditya Dhar’s sequel to his mega-blockbuster Dhurandhar 1, and the box office is roaring with its success! Audiences are lapping up D2, that brazenly bats bigger, ...
Parenting the Parents: A Civilisation at the Crossroads of Love, Duty, and Selfhood
Morning of Reckoning: When Time Paused and Truth Arrived One morning, as I quietly stepped from sixty-two into sixty-three, a warm cup of tea brought with it an unusual clarity. Not the kind that arrives with ...
The Near Exit of the British Council Library in India: A Deeply Saddening Loss
The closure of the British Council Library (BCL) in Chennai on February 15, 2026, is deeply saddening. With this decision, the presence of the British Council’s physical libraries in India will be reduced to just two ...
The Cognisable Dilemmas of Life — To Be or Not to Be
“ऐ ग़म-ए-ज़िंदगी… कुछ तो दे मशवरा… एक तरफ़ उनका घर… एक तरफ़ मैकदा।” When Pankaj Udhas renders this couplet, the ghazal does more than mourn love—it stages a philosophical trial. The speaker is suspended between two ...
Shaping Satish Gujral’s Legacy
Behind the scenes of a centennial retrospective with curator Kishore Singh What is a dream project? Something you want to do or achieve – an occasion you create within the realm of achievable aspirations. But there ...
“But I want it, no matter what!”
This refrain is probably as old as humanity. The desire to ‘have’ has been behind the most epochal events in human history. Desire does make it happen, but if left unchecked, can incrementally progress from ‘insistence ...
Is This True of India’s Medical Sector?
We do not wish to alarm our readers but it is useful to bear such practices may be happening around us. Surely, there are black sheep in every profession globally. But important to be wary, check ...
Silent Films Unfiltered
“The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it’s sensory; the fact that you don’t go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.” ...
Veteran SK Misra Embarks Upon a New Initiative on Preserving Buddhist Heritage
In Conversation with S K Misra, Chairman, Indian Trust for Rural Heritage and Development, has been a crusader for culture, tourism and heritage, over several decades. A former chairman of INTACH, formerly principal secretary to Prime ...
The Paradox of Convenience: A World at Home
Is a world driven by tech reducing our community connect? We need to strive for both, convenience as well as staying in touch. Find your balance. We, in New Delhi, are most certainly living a life ...
