Rohit Sharma is one of the greatest players in white-ball cricket. He has scored nearly 4,231 runs in T20 internationals, the most by any Indian player. For more than ten years, he was India’s first-choice opener in limited-overs cricket, until he retired from T20 internationals after winning the T20 World Cup on June 29, 2024. […]
There’s this tiny room in GosaiTola, Patna, that’s been quietly doing something amazing since 2015. The Shaheed Bhagat Singh Library doesn’t look like much from the outside, but kids actually choose to hang out here instead of cramming for tests somewhere else. Bhagat Singh’s faded picture hangs over the door, and inside it’s just about […]
It’s 2 AM, and you feel like you’re dragging around a sack of bricks. Your body is begging for rest, but you find yourself scrolling mindlessly on your phone. You’re not even looking at anything that matters—just flicking through social media posts, glancing at Netflix shows that you’ll probably never actually finish, or sending late-night […]
I didn’t think this would stay with me, honestly. I thought I’d just go, take notes, maybe write something about an NGO, and be done with it. But then, I met Sister Dorothy Fernandes — and everything shifted a little. She wasn’t trying to impress me. No long speeches. No big, dramatic talk about “impact.” […]
Mammoths, Dodos, and Dire Wolves roaming the earth again seems like a distant dream, right? Well, there’s growing excitement around the idea of bringing back extinct animals — mammoths, dire wolves, even dodos. It sounds like a breakthrough, a leap made in science. De-extinction, as it’s being called, isn’t actually resurrection. It’s not about magically […]
Pollination isn’t something most of us think about — it just feels like one of those background things that happen on their own. But for farmers, especially in India, it’s becoming something they have to actively manage. And that shift says a lot about how we’ve come to depend less on nature and more on […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about sleep since March 14, which was World Sleep Day. That day was also Holi, a festival in India, a boisterous celebration, where people celebrate with colours and music. I was woken up early by loud music from the neighbours’ apartment, which made me grumble about how noisy Bihar (a […]
Manipur is burning. We hope and pray for sense to prevail, and a solution to be worked out. But the smaller tribes of Manipur who are lumped together under the umbrella identity ‘Kuki’ are caught in the middle.Any long-term solution to the ongoing conflict in Manipur must also take into account the hopes, aspirations and […]
The world as we know it will be evolving to a place where 80 percent of human jobs will be wiped out. From Rio De Janeiro comes an AFP story that artificial intelligence (AI) could replace 80 per cent of human jobs in the coming years. But that is a good thing, says United States-Brazilian […]
A village in Manipur’s Ukhrul District has been celebrating its garlic crop in a festival called ‘Shuri Kaso Phanit’. This week, the 10th edition of the garlic festival, held at Talui village ground and organized by the Talui Kharngarum SHG(Self Help Group), was less satisfying tan previous years, according to the locals. Observers and locals […]
Things are hotting up in the wildlife sector in Assam, in what may be a major embarrassment for the state. Apparently, a high ranking forest official illegally spent over a crore of rupees from a Tiger Fund on a President’s visit to Kaziranga National Park in February last year. Things haven’t been going well in […]
It’s an ambitious plan to reintroduce an extinct predatory animal species. Twelve cheetahs arrived in Madhya Pradesh from South Africa on Saturday ( Feb 18) and were released into the quarantine enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district They have been flown to India as part of an agreement to introduce dozens […]
