On 25 August 2026, Anil Menon was attached to the end of the International Space Station’s robotic arm, moving through the darkness more than 400 kilometres above Earth. Beside him was European Space ...

September arrives carrying two contradictory impressions of our age. Humanity appears more capable than ever, yet the world around us often seems increasingly fragile. We send physicians into space, ...

On 8 September 2026, representatives of 193 countries will return to the United Nations headquarters in New York for the opening of the eighty-first session of the General Assembly. The annual ...

After decades of building lives abroad, a growing number of Indians are looking back toward home. But returning to India is not simply a journey across borders. It is a journey back to a version of ...

Consider an Indian couple who arrived in Dubai in the early 1980s. He found work in a trading company. She later joined a school office. Their first apartment was small, their salaries modest and ...

For many families, measles belongs to another age. It is remembered, if at all, as a childhood illness from the years before modern vaccination. Older relatives may describe it as an unpleasant but ...

In the high Himalayas, danger does not always arrive with a long warning. Sometimes it begins far above the settlements, beyond ordinary sight, where ice, rock, snow and water have been held together ...

As India prepares to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami on 4 September 2026, kitchens across northern India will begin filling with the warm fragrance of roasted coriander, ghee, nuts and cardamom. Dhaniya ...

There is a particular kind of home that has dominated social media for years. Its walls are white or pale grey. The sofa, carpet and curtains belong to the same restrained colour family. Kitchen ...

Rema Pisharody is a writer from Bangalore. She is an environmentalist and a nature lover. She holds a Masters in Sociology and is a former employee of BPL Corporate Office, Bangalore. Poetry for her ...

**This small write up is based on materials available on the internet. This is a simple subject, but it has a lot of chill factor. Yes, this is about our hand held Fans. My earliest memory of handheld ...

The Venice International Film Festival has always contained two worlds. One arrives by water taxi, poses before photographers and speaks about cinema beneath the flash of cameras. The other enters ...