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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Topic: Pondicherry

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

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.