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Friday, June 6, 2025
TopicCleopatra

Topic: Cleopatra

Cleopatra’s skin colour is a frivolous modern fascination. It eclipses her political prowess

We project onto Cleopatra our own cultural preconceptions about female influence, and assume she must have been physically attractive.

Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is the woman we need

The 21st-century heroine may be scarred, imperfect or absurd, and she is in the mood of noncompliance with the world that men have organised.

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Ashoka University began as a bold promise. Sanjeev Bikhchandani has diminished it

Funding challenges are understandable. It takes effort to raise funds for a university. But one must ask: how much money is really traded off when a few academics stand by principle?

Global financial system is reaching a major turning point. Why interoperability is important

While digital assets are speeding ahead, the tech and regulatory frameworks behind them aren’t keeping up. Each blockchain still operates with its own governance, standards andcompliance assumptions.

Army’s Kumaon Quest bike expedition, led by woman officer, flagged off from Delhi

Nine-day ride through Uttarakhand’s border areas to fuel youth drive, tourism and village connect.

Asim Munir just stole his 5th star & has nothing to show for it. It’ll make him desperate, dangerous

Asim Munir locked up Imran Khan, had his handmaiden parliament give himself an extended tenure. But the additional jingle of that fifth star will not change facts on the ground.