Gandhi in an Age of Power
What Survives After A Hundred Years? On 2 October 2026, it is difficult not to notice how different the world is from the one Mahatma Gandhi knew. Wars continue in Europe and West Asia. Military capabilities ...
Connecting India, Dividing the Wild
The Road that Entered the Forest At first light, a forest road can look almost innocent. The asphalt is narrow, the traffic sparse, and the trees appear to close over it from both sides. Yet for ...
Ladakh Marathon: Like No Other — For the Brave and the Resilient
THE CALL This year 2026, is my 3rd consecutive participation in India’s most grueling marathon, The Ladakh Marathon. What attracts me to this iconic run year after year? Well, it is Ladakh itself, its landscape and ...
Escaping the Digital Chakravyuha
Easy to enter, hard to flee—the risks of today’s screen-based childhood and the erosion of real-world play Every generation worries about its children. ours may be the first that feels something essential is being lost. A ...
International Tiger’s Day
Although all days should be Tiger's day but just a nudge on this special day that they are only 3600 left in the wild. We are 8 billion on this planet. One of the most beautiful, ...
Incredible Blessings in every Bite
“A simple word like ‘Itadaki-masu’, had transformed the sensory pleasure of our meals into a profound blessing.” “Bon appétit!”. We all said in unison, as we attacked the ‘pizzas and pasta’ meal delivered a minute ago ...
The Publisher’s Paradox: A Civilisation Writing More and Reading Less
When Books Ruled the Mind There was a time when books occupied a place of quiet authority in human life. They rested beside pillows, travelled in cloth bags during long railway journeys, and stood proudly on ...
An Annonymous Artist’s Powerful Statement on Blind Nationalism
A Statue in London’s Waterloo Place A large statue mysteriously appeared in the middle of the night of 29th April in central London. The artwork depicted a suited man, blinded by the wind-blown flag he was ...
Transit Revolution – From Crawl to Cruise
The proposed Modi Mill–IIT Gate signal-free corridor is a critical intervention structured to eliminate decades-old bottlenecks and restore flow to the Outer Ring Road Choked turns and crossings, long agonising wait as one expertly manoeuvres through ...
The Moral Pivot: The Quiet Death of Conscience
“The quietest conversations are often the most decisive.” The most dangerous silence is not the absence of noise in the world, but the fading of a voice within. It does not arrive like a storm. It ...
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 ...
