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India’s digital nomads fleeing big cities for work-bliss balance. New hubs want them, woo them

Instagram-friendly Goa and Dharamshala are the favourites of digital nomads. They are shaping the future of work, with a little help from Amazon, Nykaa and high-speed data.

Korai mat, Toda cloth—museum shows how Tamil Nadu’s rural women took handloom business online

One of the artisans, Fathima, who would earn between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 a month selling Korai mats the traditional way, now makes Rs 30,000 after taking the business online.

The Sri Aurobindo book I have never been able to finish or progress beyond a canto

‘Reading Sri Aurobindo’, edited by Gautam Chikarmane and Devdip Ganguli, goes into the writings of the Indian philosopher, yoga guru, poet and nationalist.

Counterview: Urging Centre to take over Auroville a call for serious overreach of State power

There have been internal and external tensions at Auroville. But resolving these can't be done through violent actions and top-down imposition by the State.

Auroville doesn’t give foreigners right to undermine India’s laws. Govt must step in

India has been generously hosting an international experiment, but it cannot be a bystander to foreign residents’ rebellion against Indian authorities.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

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.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

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.