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Thursday, April 9, 2026
TopicMemory

Topic: Memory

Your chances of dementia depend on the job you choose—higher complexity, lower risk

Saman Husain -
A major 2025 analysis by researchers at University College London found that occupational complexity accounted for 73 per cent of lowered dementia risk.

Thinking in a foreign language can help you remember things more accurately, says US study

Emma Charlton -
According to the researchers, thinking in a second language uses a different system of reasoning – one that’s less automatic or instinctive.

Personal baggage needs to be discarded to move ahead in life

Vaidyanathan Subramanian -
What you can truly leave behind is the love, kindness, affection, goodwill, generosity, and the lasting memories as an individual during your short stay on earth, writes Vaidyanathan Subramanian.

It’s not always your fault when you can’t remember. Sometimes, just blame it on luck

Thor Grünbaum -
Working memory is limited, both in its capacity and in the duration of time we can hold information. That’s why people need long-term memory.

Science has proof of how bad diet can lead to bad memory

Shiksha Dev -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

If memories don’t get enough ‘likes’, it can change how we feel about them

David Beer -
Social media metrics such as Facebook ‘likes’ can negatively impact how people feel about certain memories.

You are what you eat — the connection between memory and our stomach

Uma Naidoo -
In ‘The Food Mood Connection’ Uma Naidoo writes about how seeing an ex can make you nauseous, pointing to the connection between your brain and gut.

Is it dementia if I forget a name or a word?

Laurie Archbald-Pannone -
Older people wonder and worry about so-called senior moments and the memory loss they perceive in themselves and others

Idea of India wasn’t demolished at Ayodhya. That happened in our ‘liberal’ homes

Rama Lakshmi -
The 1992 Babri Masjid demolition was no sudden act. All of our family conversations contributed to the pickaxes that hit the mosque in Ayodhya.

Chess player memory is a myth. This is my trick before matches, writes Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand -
When I was younger, I could recall every chess game I played. Now, I often don’t have complete memory of a game I played a week ago.
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Opinion

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

Manvendra Singh -
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

How the Indian Navy counters modern maritime threats—Hard seas and steady hands

India has 291 homoeopathic colleges in 2026, says Minister of Ayush Prataprao Jadhav

Economy

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

Deepika Amirapu -
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Defence

Theaterisation in play: Air Headquarters to control strategic assets  

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Exclusive: Theaterisation proposal has been stuck over how limited air assets would be divided. Consensus reached on division of air assets among 3 theatres, it is learnt.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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