From Messi to Ronaldo, the Champions League has been a stage to display brilliance. This year, the midfield reclaimed its status as a facilitator of the game.
You might think it obvious that larger states should get more seats under the principle of “one person, one vote” — but it risks sharpening federal fault-lines.
Tamil Nadu’s village-god Ayyanar is converging with the epic mythology and pilgrimage of Ayyappa at Sabarimala. This will have long-lasting effects on both.
Late Monday afternoon, the tide began to turn. On TV news channels, such as Republic and CNN News 18, a ‘riot toolkit’ appeared on screen, with fingers pointed at ‘foreign elements’.
The force for the operation was to be maintained by air through para drops by fixed wing aircrafts while the helicopter effort was primarily earmarked for tasks such as reconnaissance.
The current transformation is best understood not as a transition to formalisation, but as a transition from invisible labour to visible informality. Women's work is far from secure.
Over millennia, men, social groups, and countries have fought over land, resources, women, even honour, but the arrival of Abrahamic monotheism brought in a...
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Just like Tina Das, Hauzel stops just short of the most important thing — the two-way bridge. Yes, Delhi residents need to shed their ignorance. Yes, curricula must include the Northeast. Yes, regional governments have failed their youth spectacularly. All true.
But nobody says what needs to be said plainly: Bharatiyata — genuine shared Indian identity — cannot be policy-decreed or guilt-tripped into existence. It has to be lived, built through ordinary daily familiarity. That requires both sides making the effort.
The structural diagnosis is correct. The Rs 6.50 lakh crore channelled into the Northeast with so little to show in jobs or world-class institutions — that is the real scandal hiding behind Ruby Jain’s ugliness.
But Hauzel, like Das before her, names the wound beautifully and then quietly exits. No tools. No blueprint. Just an eloquent indictment.
The Northeast’s youth deserve more than periodic outrage cycles that fade in a week. They deserve unglamorous, sustained institutional work — better universities at home, real jobs, genuine curriculum reform, and yes, a national conversation that goes both ways.
Name the wound. Then pick up the tools.
Ps: We need problem solvers and solution proponents not agony aunts .
Just like Tina Das, Hauzel stops just short of the most important thing — the two-way bridge. Yes, Delhi residents need to shed their ignorance. Yes, curricula must include the Northeast. Yes, regional governments have failed their youth spectacularly. All true.
But nobody says what needs to be said plainly: Bharatiyata — genuine shared Indian identity — cannot be policy-decreed or guilt-tripped into existence. It has to be lived, built through ordinary daily familiarity. That requires both sides making the effort.
The structural diagnosis is correct. The Rs 6.50 lakh crore channelled into the Northeast with so little to show in jobs or world-class institutions — that is the real scandal hiding behind Ruby Jain’s ugliness.
But Hauzel, like Das before her, names the wound beautifully and then quietly exits. No tools. No blueprint. Just an eloquent indictment.
The Northeast’s youth deserve more than periodic outrage cycles that fade in a week. They deserve unglamorous, sustained institutional work — better universities at home, real jobs, genuine curriculum reform, and yes, a national conversation that goes both ways.
Name the wound. Then pick up the tools.
Ps: We need problem solvers and solution proponents not agony aunts .