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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicMegacities

Topic: Megacities

Superstar cities are witnessing domestic exodus & possibly entering a new phase

In Amsterdam, 27- to 40-year-olds with kids have been driving the recent departure wave. The migration indicates that superstar city phenomenon has its limits.

A policy capping human density is what India needs for its flood-prone cities

Close to 1,700 people died in 14 states and more than 20 lakh were evacuated to shelter camps by September this year due to floods.

As our cities get more crowded & polluted, taking trains to work might be the only answer

How the world deals with the pressure, as urbanization pushes our metro areas still closer to breaking point, will define the shape of transport over the coming decades.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.