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Vistara
There are moments when an outing becomes more than an outing. My visit to the immersive Van Gogh experience in Pune began as a curious encounter with digital art. It ended as something larger – a...
A Crisis near the Strait of Hormuz is never merely a distant geopolitical event. It enters the country quietly, through shipping routes, insurance premiums, energy invoices, freight costs, and household...
It began with a simple phone call from my mother, the kind of call that carries more than words.
She asked if I was free tomorrow (the day before Shivaratri) because she wanted me to take her to a grand...
The expiry of New START marks the end of an orderly era of nuclear accounting. The new anarchy is digital, industrial, and far harder to count.
When the “New START” treaty was signed in Prague...
If I had to describe 2025 in one line, I would say “It was a year where the world refused to behave.” What used to be predictable became uncertain, alliances shifted, tariffs returned, neighbours bristled,...
For decades, Vizag has been a city of arrivals. Cargo ships from across the Bay of Bengal dock at its harbors; cranes move steel and coal; port sirens echo across the Eastern Ghats. But now, a new kind...
When Fiction Became a Forecast
Two decades ago, The Da Vinci Code transformed a museum into mythology. The Louvre was depicted as a cathedral of secrets, a sanctuary where technology, intellect, and art...