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TopicAdulting

Topic: adulting

SubscriberWrites: Poem on the challenges of becoming an adult

Vardhan Saklani’s poem talks about the experiences encountered by a person transitioning from a child into a young adult .

We are now adulting without friends because social media algorithms have taken over

If adulting means remaining trapped in our silos with our gadgets all the time, then we need to perhaps redefine it — as an ability to be complete in oneself.

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Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.