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5 June, 2026 | Urban Tales → Books English: Why is baked as bect, but naked as nay-ked?
The stupidity begins when English is viewed through the rules of grammar...
4 June, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Cheaper black-market cooking gas in India on the way: Search for stability in West Asia
For Israel, the removal of armed groups from border areas represents a...
4 June, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Sweet sunshine in Bengal, Delhi after the rout of communists: Truly, a good communist / fascist is a dead one
Electoral victories provide governments with opportunities to translate campaign promises into public...
2 June, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Cornflakes were touted as healthy to save the American corn industry; carbs in the morning are poison. They replaced the healthier US breakfast of grits, sausages, eggs, chilly, meatloaf, fresh bread and bacon
To prevent agricultural overproduction and establish a new market, agri-businesses heavily marketed...
2 June, 2026 | Urban Tales Roots of caste and religious identity in India; Parents and not politicians to be blamed
When religious identity becomes the primary lens through which individuals understand society,...
31 May, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Why the expat Bengali may be super happy with a cleaner, more organized Calcutta under BJP governance; Why many could consider returning to settle in Bengal
Where a BJP-led administration transforms Kolkata into a significantly cleaner, better organized,...
28 May, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Bengal’s long and rough road back to pre-colonial prosperity may happen given the required components being in place
A progressive government in Bengal that balances cultural protection with constitutional governance...
25 May, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Finance Banking Sliding rupee against dollar – kissing ₹100/$; How the Indian currency weakened from ₹43 to beyond ₹83 against the US dollar despite numerous booster shots
India always imported far more goods than it exported, particularly crude oil....
25 May, 2026 | New Tech → Medical ‘Cry your heart out,’ actually holds true in real life backed by research from Dr William Frey of Minnesota University
Similar looking tears, same duct, same eye but how radically different were...
24 May, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Hasimara, Malda airports could serve as ignition plugs for Bengal’s business revival. Bangladeshi illegal squatters need to be uprooted before project plan push
The communists just sat on Malda. Unlike Hasimara, Malda’s challenge is not...
22 May, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Indian Railways cannot modernize without corporatization and market accountability
Indian bureaucrats in Rail Bhawan and Baroda House have always taken the...
13 May, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management FICCI, CII, Assocham: Survival and growth plan for India’s business chambers despite the threat from the Internet
Digital transformation in life and the corporate sector has forced India’s traditional...
8 May, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Bengal’s 2026 CM. What if it is Sanjeev Sanyal?
Sanjeev Sanyal has been vocal about how Bengal had been murdered by...
6 May, 2026 | Policy-Laws Gurgaon and Bangalore, both cities misplanned and mismanaged without drainage systems and water collection / disbursal systems by idiots
Both cities spell total destruction of city planning and cultural flow. The...
6 May, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics With BJP win, Bengal may gradually go back to the time when it contributed 12% GDP of the global economy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will replace the hyacinth in Bengal’s ecosystem...
2 May, 2026 | Urban Tales → Travel and Tourism How to choose your first luxury safari in Africa
If you prefer fewer crowds and a more exclusive feel, consider Botswana’s...
2 May, 2026 | Urban Tales → Travel and Tourism Which are the highest paying jobs in the travel and tourism sector?
The travel and tourism industry is a serious money-making sector spanning aviation,...
2 May, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Is hiring a business consultant really worth the cost? What should you expect when you hire a business consultant?
Just as offering management consultancy services is an art and a science...
30 April, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Maruti Suzuki breaks out into luxury market with the Invicto; always had the luxury DNA
As a Maruti Suzuki fan, I have always felt that this company...
26 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Travel and Tourism Indian hotels pamper, non-Indian hotels whimper – still holds true
In India, the attitude to win over a guest and not just...
25 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre Sara Arjun, Ponniyin Selvan’s adorable child princess, Dhurandhar’s desirable femme fatale, lands plum role as Madhubala
Congratulations are truly in order for Sara Arjun. From a gifted child...
23 April, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Indian tour operators score over players in other countries, every time
One of the defining strengths of Indian tour operators lies in their...
23 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → China China shuts down private primary schools; not to contain rising fees but to stem independent thoughts in formative years
Communism fears an independently thinking population, the most. That is what comes...
23 April, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Indian companies still struggle to enter into the aircraft design and manufacture ecosystem
What India lacks for a robust aircraft manufacturing industry is a ground...
23 April, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Killing cancer cells with snake venom is not yet a viable option; research and trials continue
The same properties that make snake venom effective against biological targets such...
18 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Pakistan advises Iran to back down after parking all surviving Iranian military aircraft in Pakistan
First, Pakistan painted itself as a cooperative ally where Iran’s IRGC could...
18 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Lung-daa mangoes Vs Alphonso mangoes; sweet bitter lemony aroma Vs sweet citric essence; Northern Gangetic plain Vs Western Mountain coast
Choosing between Langda and Alphonso is not about taste, it is about...
17 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → China Russia, China dump the dollar in mutual trade; India pushing UPI worldwide
The shift away from the dollar is part of a broader process...
17 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics How many Lok Sabha seats for PoK, after delimitation and integration into India?
If the Indian Parliament’s Lok Sabha were expanded to 850 seats and...
15 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → China China unknowingly slicing its own salami; lack of political wisdom and lust for more land, lack of democracy for its people are spelling China’s internal termite infestation
Critics often point to what is described as a “salami slicing” strategy...
15 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → China USA’s many more, meaner fighter planes now vulnerable to China’s 200-km range air-to-air missiles
The emergence of long-range, highly intelligent air-to-air missiles is forcing a rethink...
15 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Waste Bengal’s sorry state is partly owing to communists and wholly because of its people
Communists did not destroy a state, they just rendered it to its...
14 April, 2026 | Urban Tales After trickling slowly out of Africa via the Arabian Sea to the Indian coast, mankind exploded throughout the world from INDIA: Research
The earliest successful non-African populations appear to have carried mitochondrial DNA lineages...
13 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre The Mangeshkar sisters: How Asha outgrew the long, looming shadow of elder sister Lata
If Lata was the voice of the times, Asha was its hidden...
12 April, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Islamic terrorists, Nazis and communists: Collective ideological branding with swift decisive execution is the scientific way to eradicate the disease
Radicalism is not a fringe anomaly but a feature supported by the...
12 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia US, Iran meet in Islamabad: Pakistan did not mediate. Pakistan racked up the room rent, dinner bill and number of towels used at midnight
Pakistan, in this narrative, played the enthusiastic stage manager. The lights were...
10 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → South East Asia Singapore’s economic and infrastructure momentum, currently in a volatile global environment
Expectations of monetary tightening signal that the Singapore government is not willing...
10 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre Crime 101 on PrimeVideo: Who wrote this trite script? Some commie from Calcutta?
Mark Ruffalo’s and Chris Hemsworth’s acting are amazing. Ruffalo the uncelebrated cop...
10 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre Sara Arjun’s rise in cinemollywood; her father’s guiding hand holds her steady
Sara Arjun has maintained a grounded approach to her career. There is...
9 April, 2026 | Urban Tales How life has changed with the loss of radio
Radio was intimate in a way that modern media often struggles to...
9 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre Actor Rakesh Bedi: Popularity, then and now
Unlike the towering personas of mainstream stars, Rakesh Bedi represented the everyday...
9 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre What now Raghav? The plan has always been in place
Raghav Chaddha’s association with Parineeti Chopra has further amplified his visibility. While...
9 April, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management You admire the billboard and the ads but you will buy the brand that fulfills your needs
The belief that awareness equals strength has misdirected billions in marketing spend...
9 April, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Enjoying sausages all over Germany; quite the sample of European food. Although, German sausages are unique. Well, what isn’t?
Bratwurst, Weißwurst, Blutwurst. What next? Germany is the land of sausages. That...
9 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Africa African economies stay down owing to debt servicing account; little room for growth
While the 4.1% growth target is a moderation, it also highlights an...
8 April, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Will tangles in the Indian jute industry persist after BJP wins the Assembly elections in Bengal?
A central concern revolves around whether investigative agencies such as the Enforcement...
8 April, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Finance Banking Key future financial indicators for DeepSeek in Singapore; right moves so far
Rather than selling standalone products or licensing large-scale enterprise solutions, the company...
8 April, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Finance Banking How to avoid the property dealer trap in India: Buy cheaper flats by pooling buyer budgets of 20 families, buying in outskirts and buying in tier 3 cities for Internet-based white collar workers
Variations of cooperative housing have existed in India for decades, especially in...
8 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe UN resolution to open Hormuz: Bahrain proposes, USA supports, Pakistan abstains and hides, China and Russia veto. Game is afoot. Europe’s gas bill Trumped
Few tankers begin to sail through Hormuz in a semblance of order....
8 April, 2026 | Policy-Laws Amit Shah’s Indo-Bangla border idea holds little water. How will river snakes deter poisonous snakes from Bangladesh?
Indian Home Minister, Amit Shah, wants to introduce crocodiles and river snakes...
7 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia PM Narendra Modi succeeds in bleeding Pakistan with continual cuts: First isolation from Islamic powers, now creditor nations asking Pak for loans to be paid back
The issue now centers on approximately $3.5 billion in loans that the...
7 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → China Euro may strengthen after Iran war; Yuan may play second fiddle: India to become largest supplier of talent to West Asia, Europe and China in post war picture
Europe has faced significant energy volatility, with reports indicating sharp increases in...
7 April, 2026 | New Tech → Medical How USA poisoned its own population: Rising autism rates owing to herbicides, pesticides and chemicals in processed foods
Glyphosate, the most widely used herbicides in modern agriculture, has contributed to...
7 April, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Mebendazole for cancer? What about hepatotoxicity? MAPK pathway be damned
The danger arises when early-stage research is misrepresented as established fact. Social...
6 April, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Israeli intelligence, satellite pictures, CIA ground ops, Iranian common people helped rescue downed F-15E pilot and weapons systems officer
The rescue operation was a layered mission involving air, ground, and intelligence...
6 April, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Indian military innovates and leapfrogs into monorail logistics in Arunachal sector; scalable counter to freezing trains in Tibet
Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the system is...
1 April, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Indian hospital chains still share CT scans on CDs: Digital superpower in the stone age
A central server with a unified database where all Indian medical records...
31 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Two lazy communist Indian border states face elections. Will they gain clarity this time? Bengal on the border owing to Indira Gandhi’s foolishness; Kerala a maritime border state owing to geo-proximity
Both states, Kerala and Bengal, are cursed with a communist mindset which...
30 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia The real picture of the Iran war minus armchair jingoism and leftist drama
Iran is fighting Israel. Israel is demolishing Iran’s Islamic authoritarian regime’s dictatorial...
30 March, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Hating India’s beautiful, enduring Hindu democratic values and fabric: Not just one country but an virus with many hosts, including pockets within India
Pakistan is born out of the seed of jealousy that Turkish horsemen...
30 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Latin America How are the South American giants coping to be the tail of the continent from sunshine Andes to freezing Patagonia?
The recent developments between Chile and Argentina is cooperation forged in the...
29 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Finicky about food or fawning over fare?
You can feed a score or at least a dozen orphanages if...
29 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandar: The rise of a modern Indian espionage epic
One of the most striking aspects of the screenplay is its structural...
28 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone New Sikkim House serves warm and tasty, meaty food. Vegetarian stuff is pretty good too
Preferably take a taxi. There is very little parking space and most...
28 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre Doodh Soda, a drink to Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar brilliance and success
When this fizzy dairy curiosity from Victorian England made its way to...
28 March, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Air India flies four hours to Canada in WRONG AIRCRAFT; pilot bites nails, turns back to base. Uh oh! Honey. Wrong car for visiting the in-laws in Kanneda
What brand of weed does the roster guy at Air India smoke?...
28 March, 2026 | War Zone Unsure boots on uneven ground; blow by blow account of how to invite boos on the ground while invading Iran
Iran is not a small or fragile state that can be easily...
28 March, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Global brands Indianizing themselves to adapt: The enduring cultural core of Hindu Indian life
The survival of Hindu traditions over thousands of years is often attributed...
28 March, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management Tools and steps may differ but Customer Experience should be priority number one
What is the one structural move in winner companies that transforms customer...
28 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Hotel Park Ascent, Culinary Court Restaurant’s attempt to be in the big league fails with holes in implementation over strategy
Small three star hotel with excellent training for staff but with a...
27 March, 2026 | War Zone India refuses to pay protection money to IRGC; sends seven warships to protect maritime oil assets instead; IRGC dictator regime losing ground
Mossad hitmen roaming the streets and felling IRGC / Basij rogues with...
25 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Who is running Iran now? Why was Israel’s presumption of killing Iran, by killing the Ayatollah, so misplaced?
Iran seems to have a repository of systems and processes for daily...
24 March, 2026 | Urban Tales I know why you hate Chetan Bhagat
At the heart of Bhagat’s appeal lies a stylistic decision that many...
23 March, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Finance Banking The illusion of wealth in India’s top 1 percent income bracket
In cities like Mumbai or Delhi, rent or home loan EMIs can...
23 March, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics United Kingdom crowds demand deportation of all Muslims in UK; Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party leads the charge
Rupert Lowe’s speech, centred on a proposed “Sovereignty and Allegiance Act,” framed...
21 March, 2026 | Urban Tales A wet, chilly March end morning in New Delhi
Delhi is rarely so wet and cold at the end of March....
20 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre The force of one is no more: Chuck Norris dies at 86
Chuck Norris encountered martial arts when he joined the United States Air...
19 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics IAS / IPS: Colonial frame of servitude and elite nobility, modern constitutional shield
Why are very few IAS or IPS officers removed quickly, even when...
19 March, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Indian Air Force may be acquiring R-37M/RVV-BD long-range air2air missiles for Su-30MKI fleet
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is reportedly moving to acquire hundreds of...
19 March, 2026 | Urban Tales Judaism and Hinduism: The confidence of continuity persists; Jainism and Zoroastrianism must be equally old and resilient
Judaism and Hinduism are the only two major religions that do not...
18 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Harman Kapoor’s Rangrez restaurant should start serving pork salad as he isn’t getting protected by British police. Britain no longer Great
British police asks Harman Kapoor, the decent citizen to behave like a...
18 March, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Scientist Thirumalaiswamy Raja’s 20 year research proves Nitin Gadkari right. Diversify into ethanol and methanol. Stop producing sugar. Pune lab makes DME gas to replace LPG
India is one of the largest producers of sugar in the world,...
18 March, 2026 | Biz / Logistics → Management The Nobbled Murdered Horse Theory by Debasish Roy vs the standard Dead Horse Theory
The Nobbled Murdered Horse Theory, as articulated by Debasish Roy, introduces the...
17 March, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Who invented the infernal sun roof? It neither helps the car nor the driver
The installation of a sunroof mechanism slightly reduces the vertical space inside...
17 March, 2026 | Policy-Laws Everyone on Linked today is a founder. The rest crib about reservation in government jobs. Signs of a jobless world
There was a time when securing a position in a large corporation...
16 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia The Iraq war and the potential Iran war: a step-by-step military comparison
The Iraq war of 2003 began with a clear political decision by...
16 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → USA Canada Reckless bully Trump yells for help at Hormuz. Nobody responds. Trump threatens with tantrum to turn up late for Chinese dinner. Nobody turns a hair again
Donald Trump issued a public demand for allied countries to contribute naval...
16 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → USA Canada US Commission for Poking Nose in Unsolicited Global Affairs recommends long list of irrelevant rubbish, which nobody is listening to
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom was created under the...
15 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe European idealistic secularism crumbling against onslaught of Muslim immigrant led crime. London, Paris, the new caliphates
European economies were prosperous, their societies appeared stable, and their welfare states...
15 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Have statutory warnings on food packets ever worked? Tobacco, sugar, salt. If the buyer is an uninformed idiot, then the law won’t help
Packaged foods frequently carry statements such as “high in sugar,” “high in...
15 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Sonam Wangchuk’s release from jail a setback for land grab mafia in Ladakh
Ladakh has a lot of land for real estate and mining. If...
13 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Preserve Persia; subdue Sharia ruled Iran
Iran’s Persian identity is thousands of years old. The Persian landmass and...
13 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Dump Hormuz. Create ports on Red Sea and Arabian Sea already. Why wasn’t all that petro money used to do this ages ago?
Hormuz. Such concentration of economic power in a single geographic bottleneck naturally...
10 March, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics USA to underwrite shipping; India to ban Chinese imports through BIS. How will the European and Asian job markets respond to this tweezer?
Shipping security in the Persian Gulf influences global energy markets, manufacturing costs,...
10 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → USA Canada The politics of identity and the rise of Saikat Chakrabarti; how he overrode the limits of hyphenated identity in American politics
Saikat Chakrabarti has emerged as an influential political strategist and progressive activist....
10 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre The slow death of the world of magazines; a quiet collapse in the publishing world
The decline of magazines unfolded gradually across the early years of the...
10 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Iran beyond the Persian label: The myth of a single Persian identity
To understand Iran properly, it is necessary to separate three concepts that...
10 March, 2026 | New Tech Go Dutch: A lasso to capture ocean trash by Boyan Slat
The vision combines engineering, environmental science, and entrepreneurial energy. Slat and his...
4 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → USA Canada James Talarico wins Democratic Senate Primary painting himself as the leader of the underdog in USA. Well-timed and appropriate narrative to win, as Trump is crushing the underdog
The underdog mythos is woven into the American self-conception. From frontier settlers...
4 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Iranian Ali Khamenei’s death by Israel and USA marks first step of rollback of torture and executions of Gaza, Iran residents under authoritarian Sharia (both Shia and Sunni) regime
Ali Khamenei’s tenure from 1989 to 2026 coincided with cycles of repression...
3 March, 2026 | Urban Tales Blood moon from the Chandra Grahan on March 3, 2026: Celestial script and likely forecast
Classical Hindu texts have historically imbued eclipses with moral and spiritual resonance....
3 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Still sympathizing and siding with Islamic terrorists: Indian federal government has still not invested in school education to change this
At the heart of the debate lies a fundamental tension: how does...
3 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Crime Awzum Aurum Anus: flying golden asses could be stranded in Middle East airports //Gold smuggled in flight attendants’ rectum//
In May 2024, a case in Kerala drew national attention. An Air...
3 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → China China to send drones, hypersonic missiles to Iran further unifying USA’s Arab allies who are already united after missile strikes by Iran. What next? Cuba like blockage of Iran?
The CM-302 missile, marketed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation as...
2 March, 2026 | War Zone Pakistan’s premature ejaculatory misguided missiles aimed at India failed unlike Iran’s missiles aimed at US bases in Middle East
The reported Pakistani offensive in May 2025 combined multiple vectors of aerial...
1 March, 2026 | Urban Tales When men are dumped by women ‘players’ and made to suffer emotionally
Tales of women being dumped by men sell very well on social...
1 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Macron’s India visit and strategic upgrade in India-France economic synergies
Historically, economic relations between India and France have been broad but selective,...
1 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics Single website land records in India? Pipe dream? Today, Indian land records are a mystery thriller nurturing fraud
In India, there is no uniform unit of measurement for land measurement....
1 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Bombs away in Operation Roaring Lion: Iran would do well to forsake Islam and turn back to Zoroastrianism
Women moved freely in Iran before 1979. Before Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew Mohammad...
1 March, 2026 | Policy-Laws The stew-pid buyer keeps falling for the property dealer’s spiel and pushing up flat prices; shrinking rooms, increasing congestion in the expanding city
The crisis is not merely about land shortage. It is about incentives,...
1 March, 2026 | Biz / Logistics The 2026 Indian triangular conundrum: No jobs, no candidates and no-good employees
Higher level, decision making jobs are shrinking today, as the economy readjusts...
1 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Indians now see more doors to Europe: A new era in India–Europe mobility post India-EU FTA
The result of the initiative is a mosaic of EU-wide initiatives and...
1 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Operation roaring lion; the largest strike in Israeli Air Force history. How about ‘Operation Indian Care’ allowing Indian Peace Keeping Forces to take care of Iran after the bloodbath?
The operation unfolded against years of mounting tensions: covert sabotage, cyber operations,...
1 March, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Attack on Hindustan’s Liver: Palm oil, mineral oil, oxalate, rubber solution; there are many chemicals to adulterate food now as compared to before 2000. Food can be slow death if we are not suspicious of every morsel and ingredient
The liver must process these damaged fats. Over time, excessive intake of...
28 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia The Indo-Israeli handshake; meeting of two similar nations, similar minds. From May 14, 1948, till today
Since Golda Meir’s support to Indira Gandhi against recognition of the Israeli...
27 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Africa USA ICE under Donald Trump re-ignites the KuKluxKlan principles in immigration; to process 4,500 white only refugees from South Africa and dilly-dally on black refugees from Africa
The juxtaposition is striking: while admissions elsewhere are slowed by administrative backlogs...
26 February, 2026 | Training Can Indian expats fund Indian universities registered as Section 8 companies in India? Under equity, debt or just philanthropy
Regulatory innovations such as the Social Stock Exchange, new fundraising instruments, and...
26 February, 2026 | Biz / Logistics After Trump Tariff Tornado: From child labour factories in Asia to automated nearshoring in the West. The global manufacturing transition from labour cost arbitrage
Factories supplying major brands were sometimes found to be employing underage workers...
26 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Crime What tourism? Drug raids in Goa revive debate over money laundering and political nexus
Traditional drug enforcement focused largely on seizure and arrest under criminal law,...
26 February, 2026 | Biz / Logistics The great Nvidia squeeze and the new economics of AI hardware
For most of its history, Nvidia’s identity was tied to gamers and...
26 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Prime Minister Narendra Modi receiving the Medal of Knesset: A historic diplomatic milestone in India–Israel relations
The shift began gradually in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but...
26 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics How will Pakistan exist without UAE and Saudi visas to earn enough to buy AK47s, food, clothing and cooking gas?
Pakistan’s economy is structurally import-dependent, particularly for petroleum, liquefied natural gas, edible...
23 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Armenians, mafia in USA, bakers in India; Jews, attacked in Europe, invisible in India; Hindu India is the original democracy
In Europe, Jewish communities endured centuries of discrimination culminating in genocide under...
23 February, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Cars in India offer a peek but never disrobe; The sunroof illusion and the convertible reality in India
The fascination with sunroofs in India is therefore less about enjoying open-air...
22 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Living in Delhi, where can one buy sugarcane jaggery not yet poisoned by refined sugar?
A less than five hours drive is Western Uttar Pradesh, where particularly...
22 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Crime How many slaps to the wife by husband constitutes cruelty? Indian Gujarat High Court judgement outlines the middle ages that India still lives in
The answer by DronePages Media is that however many slaps the wife...
22 February, 2026 | Biz / Logistics UPI One World: Great plug-and-play wallet for tourists visiting India
UPI One World is a prepaid payment instrument (PPI) wallet denominated in...
20 February, 2026 | Training Galgotias University AI Summit: Lying about a product and passing it as your own is not a slip of tongue. However, if your 6 can be my 9, then it can be safely declared as a slippery 69
Unfortunately, education functions as a transactional quasi-public good. Unlike consumer Software subscriptions...
19 February, 2026 | Biz / Logistics The great Indian independent director mismatch; companies least bothered but coaching centres spawn
The only ones trumpeting and selling the concept of independent directors in...
18 February, 2026 | Training Are Indian universities involved in patent filing fraud? Innovation can hang itself. Fill a form, file a patent. Take home the subsidy. Laugh your way to the bank. Fool students to join
Government schemes reimburse up to ₹2 lakhs per domestic patent application and...
18 February, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Sanitary napkins: Cloth, cups, or compostable pads? Reimagining menstrual hygiene beyond plastic
Research cited by global organizations such as World Health Organization and UNICEF...
18 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws The truth about obsolescence: People lose jobs to technology but five years later a younger generation takes over and populates those vacancies. Joblessness remains
Indian private sector banks ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank reduced...
18 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Where does India stand in the global fruit exports power game? Why does Netherlands rule this domain?
Handful of nations control enormous shares of global supply while others struggle...
17 February, 2026 | New Tech After massive Atal Tunnel, India dives underwater with a Brahmaputra mega link
India rising under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. This is a story...
15 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → USA Canada Hindu Indian Americans still devoid of political muscle. Vivek Ramaswamy still a backroom boy in USA politics. Why don’t Tulsi Gabbard and Kamala Harris take off? Usha Vance doesn’t count
Economic capital converts into political capital only when communities build “institutional density”,...
15 February, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Spacex launch; Dragon astronauts vs NASA astronauts: The new space caste system nobody saw coming
The commercialization wave has also increased participation from countries without legacy astronaut...
15 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → USA Canada Stew-pit Americans still building flimsy wooden toy houses in tornado warning affected areas
Wood dominates American housing primarily because it is cheap, fast, and financially...
15 February, 2026 | Training Indian judiciary: Same British Raj imperialist model. 16th century legal process in 2026. Change will come only if contingent contract model between client and advocate is implemented in India
Consider how a high-profile defendant manipulates and navigates the system. Within hours...
15 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Real Madrid vs Real Sociedad food comparison: Lifestyle empires of football
The Bernabéu Market experience resembles airport lounges, luxury malls, or cruise ships,...
14 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Dreaded diaspora debate: Is life abroad really better for Indians? Weighing Saudi, UAE, China, Australia and Europe. USA is in limbo with Trump
Consulting giants like McKinsey, Deloitte, and PwC have repeatedly highlighted that citizens...
14 February, 2026 | Urban Tales How could Amitabh Bachchan avoid prison owing to debts incurred by ABCL? Why could Rajpal Yadav not avoid prison? Where did the difference lie? Magnitude? Attitude? Ineptitude? Latitude?
The turning point came when Bachchan approached filmmaker Yash Chopra for work,...
14 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Why are Hindu Indians in the USA turning into the Jews of 20th century Europe? Successful businesses amid hatred by unsuccessful toiling, jobless, homeless communities
In USA, the top echelons of investment banks, venture capital firms, and...
14 February, 2026 | Training Filthy Indian caste system: A marriage in Buxar and the questions it raised
This single story from Buxar thus opens a larger inquiry: if caste...
14 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Trump eyes Iranian oil. Israel enjoys the attention. This slurry may be slippery with both tariffs and flotillas
Either its tariffs or a military flotilla. Trump fulfills the definition of...
14 February, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars Avro Canada: The aircraft maker that was ahead of its time
Many argue that Canada forfeited its position as a world leader in...
14 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Cafe Uno at Shangri-La hotel, New Delhi is a perfect gateway for lunch on a pleasant day in Lutyens Delhi
The restaurant manager is genuine in his feelings for guests and has...
14 February, 2026 | War Zone Former Indian Army General Navarane turns crybaby in memoirs. Says, PM Modi gave orders ‘fire at will’. Demands should have been spoonfed with clerical specifics
General Naravane reportedly described the instruction as a “hot potato,” suggesting that...
14 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics China vs India: Who will be the world’s next research lab?
Over the last two decades, Beijing has engineered a state-backed surge in...
13 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws RERA: Eyewash regulation to protect property dealers building flimsy flats; Indian Supreme Court wants RERA abolished. The stupid buyer falling for fraud still prevails supreme. Only a boycott of WIP projects will work
In theory, RERA created a level playing field. In practice, however, implementation...
13 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Prince Ginger Harry went with his heart; Meghan Markle should feel blessed: King Charles married to restore regal decorum and went to live with his mistress
Thank God Prince Harry did not marry to maintain the royal decorum...
12 February, 2026 | Urban Tales US Attorney General Pam fought like unpaid attorney to retain dog belonging to family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. That’s Pam Bondi. Not the Beach
The Couture family of New Orleans left their Saint Bernard, Master Tank,...
12 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Poor Americans debt-struck on Trumped up charges: Adorable deplorables skinned alive under Trump
American households collectively carry trillions in mortgage debt, credit card balances, auto...
12 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Valencia vs Real Madrid: A tale of two football cities, two kitchens, and one dramatic night
To understand the drama of Valencia versus Real Madrid is to understand...
11 February, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Brilliant employees have eureka moments but file patents only for global employer companies who own IP, get rich; reward shareholders
Employees do not own IP. This structural divide is visible in Silicon...
10 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics US military always chases oil but never bombards drug cartels: Drugs and the DEA are a business not to be toyed with
The United States sends just about enough military to dampen a few...
10 February, 2026 | War Zone Pakistan’s military labour hired by Trump’s chump change, unwilling to disarm militant brothers in Hamas to stabilize Gaza
As of early 2026, Pakistan wants the money but refuses to side...
10 February, 2026 | War Zone Wither AtmNirbhar Bharat? Indigenous on paper, imported in practice: The Indian defence procurement paradox
At the heart of the controversy lies a pattern that many observers...
9 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Bombardier, Airbus dispute: All federal agencies report to United States of Trump. Duh!
One of the most alarming aspects of Trump’s statement is the implied...
9 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Ranthambor Bagh Villa hotel: Slipshod operations, clueless skeletal staff
This may not be the best place to stay while you go...
9 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Sports Grant Stewart’s cricket from Kalgoorlie to the Azzurri; from one Italian society to another
Italy’s story of cricket, embodied in players like Grant Stewart, is one...
8 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Europe’s next growth engine: India, the FTA, and the RuPay / UPI revolution
The Euro was conceived as a political and economic unifier, but its...
8 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Sports What can we learn from Saiteja Mukkamalla’s father, Nageshwara Reddy’s decisions in life? Is Saiteja a better cricketer for it?
What can we really learn from Nageshwara Reddy’s decisions? And does Saiteja...
8 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics An Indian Balochistan corralling bad sheep in Pakistan is good for the region
Unknown gunmen from the Indian intelligence agencies appear in Balochisthan and help...
8 February, 2026 | War Zone Tejas: For want of an engine, many squadrons were lost. Smaller, lighter and cheaper doesn’t work when you plan dogfights
The Tejas is proud of its economical design, which may be great...
7 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Rwanda, UAE have highest number of women MPs. The so-called free world doesn’t
In India, out of 543 members in the 18th Lok Sabha, 74...
7 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Indian MPs come to blows as part of a global club of fighting MPs pursuing punches, pandemonium and parliamentary privilege
In theory, the Indian Parliament is modeled on Westminster traditions: orderly debate,...
7 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws The India everyone missed: In 2026, are you a member of the new middle class that was promised during the liberalization of 1991 by PVN Rao?
Millions of Indians were always working. They were drivers, technicians, salespeople, designers,...
6 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre James Bond 007 and the Indian Budget are similar; every new version is worse than the last one
The NDA-BJP government achieves quite spectacularly with out-of-Budget notifications, making the annual...
6 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Cinema Movies Theatre The Mind of the Mandhana: Comparing gym sessions, diet, exercise, and lifestyle of Smriti and Rashmika, the athlete and the actress
The athlete and the actress are both brands, but the way those...
6 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics BJP’s path to domination in Bengal and Kerala
One of the most important aspects of this political contest is that...
6 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Israel needs to annex and run Sinai, Gaza for a robust, active Ben Gurion Canal
The proposed route of the Ben Gurion Canal runs roughly 300 kilometres...
5 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Economy down; scams up. Insure the lifestyle of the finance jockey; have pity
When the economy turns sour, the party ends and the buffet tables...
5 February, 2026 | New Tech → Medical A rich person with a kidney stone, whooping cough and intestinal ulcer does not spell wisdom: Invest in health and happiness instead
Investing in good food, healthy lifestyle, good health and good skills makes...
5 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Is your gold jewellery fake? Crazy obsession to buy gold, usually leads to loss
Unscrupulous manufacturers and criminal syndicates insert themselves with the promise of 18-carat...
5 February, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Tel Aviv to New Delhi: Israel’s centrifugal strategic turn in defence manufacturing, away from US mother ship
For Israel, which views military autonomy as existential, dependence on the United...
5 February, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Gig or Big; if you are in India, your next employer may be from European investment in 10 years
China as the default answer to global manufacturing and supply chain efficiency...
5 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws Urban Planning is not politics. When every planner has a limit, except the city planner
This is an argument against pretending that cities are infinitely elastic. The...
5 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics With US-India trade deal at 18%, US President Donald Trump steps back from threats of 100% tariffs against India. How Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought down the haughty US Empire and forced it to eat humble pie
This experiment in coercion by USA created short-term uncertainty for Indian exporters....
3 February, 2026 | War Zone Xi Jinping’s military: No generals, potbellied bureaucrats and party functionaries in uniform with hypertension
China’s military is an organisation ruled and run by one person, Xi...
3 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Epstein reveals; when conspiracy becomes cabaret amid America’s anxiety of relevance
If the Epstien reveals are to be believed, Ronald Reagan is still...
2 February, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Golf view hotel, Panchmarhi, MadhyaDesh, India: Pagoda style cottages and cottage cheese with a unmanicured sunlit meadow
The Golf View hotel, in the small sanatorium town of Panchmarhi is...
1 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Summer sex or winter action? New way to divide couples with climate
The winter couple prefers action between the sheets, wrapped in warmth, insulated...
1 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Kerala and Chile: Comparing urbanization and absence of rail tracks
For decades, transport planning in India assumed Kerala was an exception to...
1 February, 2026 | Urban Tales Trump’s golden arch of democracy. Grab that delicious whatever…
The concept, as explained by Trump during an impromptu press conference held...
1 February, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Domino effect: MBS refusing to renew the petro dollar, Trump on the US’ regal chair, isolation, threats and now US debt dumped around the world
What once seemed unthinkable—America being perceived as an unstable or coercive actor...
30 January, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone The systematic death of authentic nolen gur in communist Waste Bengal
The rot does not stop at gur. It runs through Bengal’s food...
30 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Gandhi never turned the other cheek living in his patriarchal quarters
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi initiated partition to install his patron’s son Jawahar Lal...
30 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Pinchpenny chindi chor companies gaining pennies to lose crores. Management with wisdom? Not on their watch
The high cost of small thinking; how penny-wise decisions cripple Indian enterprises...
30 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe India-EU FTA is silent on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Indian steel companies still to catch up on carbon credits
CBAM functions as the most sophisticated non-tariff trade barrier the world has...
30 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Iran: Return of the Persian question. Israel, India, and the shadow war
Persian Empire, theocracy, and the long war over the Persian mind that...
29 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics November 2028, next USA presidential election. USA would have withered into horsehide wrapped in tariff directive paper under Scrooge McTrump
Malice in Wonderland; that’s what it seems to be under Donald Trump...
29 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Africa Will PM Modi draft the next mega deal with Africa? Let them form a real African Union first. Common currency will help
India’s engagement with Africa is multifaceted: it encompasses economic cooperation and investments,...
28 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Stop worrying and love Trumpistan
We are living in a bold new era, an era of unprecedented...
28 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Which regions in India to benefit with jobs after India-EU FTA deal?
What will be the role of the NDA government’s Ministry of Commerce’s...
28 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics A buyer boycott on pre-bookings can destroy corrupt real estate builders. Foolish buyers will never form a cooperative and prosper
If buyers collectively refused to pre-book, three things would happen quickly. First,...
28 January, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Restaurants survive on certainty. Don’t offer the customer a mystery novel on a plate
Real food businesses survive, not by chasing novelty, but by eliminating variance....
27 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Who in Europe still loses from the India–EU FTA
India could export cheap but skilled labour to these lean loser regions...
27 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe Indian winners from EU-India FTA
Start mapping your own region in India and how that can win...
27 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe India wins. PM Modi puts India on the global map with India-EU FTA
For Europe, India is no longer just a fast-growing market—it is a...
27 January, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Europe India–EU FTA: India to become manufacturing hub number one. PM Narendra Modi does it again; puts India on the global map
European winners: Why they win tying up with India 1. Automobiles &...
26 January, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Losing body fat is easy: Stop eating carbs, fast for 20/24 hours/day, sip 6 litres of water/day, sleep 7 hours at night, wake up early 2 read/write, poop well
Losing body fat, requires interrupting the body’s expectation of regular intake, reducing...
25 January, 2026 | Urban Tales No kids to cuddle; vanishing young population: A quiet crisis the world is already living
The world is discovering that population aging is not a soft problem....
25 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics India needs territorial, cultural, administrative, and economic domination to win globally by 2035
Every successful global power first creates overwhelming internal economic momentum. India missed...
25 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics How family funds in the UAE decide whom to trust
In the UAE, access is not unlocked by compliance with a formula....
25 January, 2026 | New Tech → Medical India’s metabolic health crisis. You think your model like figure or man-mountain muscles make you healthy? Think again
Nearly half the population in India is Thin Outside, Fat Inside, while...
25 January, 2026 | New Tech R&D: India’s poverty of ambition
The extraordinary success of India’s biggest corporate groups has come not from...
25 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Indians have a habit of accepting a sh*t life. India’s population is not the problem
Indians love to exist like ants. They are brain washed from their...
23 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws Tax evasion as survival: An Indian tradition for centuries; welfare state environment missing
Other than Sher Shah Suri, the Afghan ruler and general commanding all...
21 January, 2026 | Training Dear Prime Minister Modi, can Kendriya Vidyalayas become India’s education superpower?
Dear Prime Minister Narendra Modiji, how about expanding the Kendriya Vidyalayas in...
21 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Thump Trump? Will Minnesota Become the Arab Spring of the USA?
The clash Between Trump, Walz, federal agents, and a state at a...
21 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Individual corporate technical gig workers working with AI gradually replacing middle management
AI is quietly, efficiently dismantling the invisible scaffolding of coordination that middle...
21 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Uttardesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal comprise the dark hole of India; sucking up fiscal and industrial growth with laziness, illiteracy and communism
At independence, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttardesh may have inherited weak industrial bases,...
20 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics We tried to write off China but China always bounces back. The myth of cheap China; reality of deep capability
A decade ago, Chinese stock markets had crashed beyond repair, the real...
20 January, 2026 | War Zone Inanity of intelligence agencies: Government employees at their clerical best
In India, all secret agents are picked from the ubiquitous Indian Police...
19 January, 2026 | New Tech → Medical When cancer treatment drains the brain: The overlooked role of thiamine deficiency
Unlike vitamin D or B12, thiamine rarely features in popular health conversations....
17 January, 2026 | New Tech → Medical India: A doctor-centric healthcare model struggling to cure common colds; hire M.Sc nurses instead, to fill the gap
Calls for “better student selection” miss the point entirely. Who decides what...
17 January, 2026 | Training Stop citing Pichai and Nadella as ‘Sharmaji ka beta’. They ceased to be Indians long ago
Pichai and Nadella are not evidence of Indian business systems working. They...
17 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Indian town planning happens through property dealers. Planners do not exist in India
There is a comforting belief that India grows because of national reforms,...
16 January, 2026 | New Tech → Medical Can SuperHealth’s leadership and Bharat Taxi founders, together drive a patient and doctor-centric revolution in Indian healthcare?
Can SuperHealth’s CEO Varun Dubey, COO Manoj Kumar and CMO Dr Alexander...
16 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws Myth of the 10-minute delivery ban
There was no official notification by the Government of India banning the...
15 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Narendra Modi doesn’t bend, doesn’t break: Why the West Is struggling to digest India’s Prime Minister
Modi represents a political reality the West has not fully come to...
15 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws India’s jobless growth raises red flags
Typically, faster real growth is accompanied by moderate price pressures, particularly in...
15 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws Delhi NCR’s air emergency: Case for Chinese-style smog towers
Steps such as graded response action plans (GRAP), odd-even traffic schemes, bans...
15 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Trump’s shadow war for Iranian oil: Psychological warfare at the state level by Trump before getting boots on the ground across Iran proves after Venezuela that Trump is the oiliest US President after Nixon
Alongside cheap Russian crude, Iranian oil has become a pressure valve for...
15 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws Bharat Taxi as a cooperative alternative: Can cab adoption and seamless mobility branch out and become a Food Delivery arm?
If Bharat Taxi can be launched in a cooperative – corporate garb...
10 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Saudi prince MBS’ refusal to renew petro-dollar lead to USA’s attack on Venezuela. Caracas oil wells now run by USA: No contract with foreign government needed
USA needed another petroleum source for the world run by USA and...
8 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics A gig is not a job; a job is not a gig. Look it up. Jobs earn salaries with benefits and stability tied to a contract. A gig earns payment for a few minutes / hours of sweat and grind
The gig workers’ demand for Rs 40,000 basic salary plus payment per...
8 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Trump digs deeper hole for USA: Isolation, the first step towards national decline. Makes America GRATE again
Fascist Japan’s withdrawal from the League of Nations marked the beginning of...
8 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws Re 1 crore annual income – the painful cost of basic stability in India: Public services and assets are a special favour by administrations
India now has municipal corporations, waste management contracts, metro rail systems, sewage...
8 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws From fat 60-page job supplements in newspapers to half a page; when jobs were plenty and the worker could choose. How the Internet slowly eroded the job market with more and more tech
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company, in its early 2000s India growth reports,...
7 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics India most expensive country for rich: YouTuber and investment coach Akshat Srivastav
Akshat Srivastav offered a critique of the structural cost of living for...
7 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Bangladesh–Myanmar: Strategic neighbours with a contiguous coastline, emerging trade partners. Will India be sidelined?
The contiguous coastal strip that spans southern Bangladesh and western Myanmar offers...
7 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics India’s Free Trade Zones still playing catch-up with the Middle Eastern model and philosophy of trade facilitation
Indian FTZs operate within a dense lattice of national policies—Foreign Trade Policy...
6 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Why the Middle East cannot yet become a networked system of Free Trade Zones
The question, is not whether Middle Eastern FTZs are individually attractive but...
6 January, 2026 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars The battlefield without pilots: How combat drones are rewriting the grammar of war
Drones point toward a world in which wars are fought faster, deeper,...
6 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Venezuela, Greenland, Canada. In history it’s just a little bump called Trump, who doesn’t have the guts to annex Mexico, China and North Korea
The proposal to ‘buy’ Greenland was not merely a diplomatic faux pas;...
6 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Why India’s free trade zones — theoretically competing with Middle East and Singapore — function as bureaucratic hurdle trade zones
Why a country like India with abundant human capital, strategic geography, and...
6 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Why Hindu Indian societies rarely produce strong political lobbies or defensive structures and leave themselves open to attack repeatedly
Hindu societies around the world invest heavily in social stability, learning, trade...
4 January, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Nirula’s, north India’s biggest HORECA brand from 1950s to 1990s. Still high brand recall in 2026 from 40 plus people but feeble offerings and null delivery
Nirula’s enjoyed that infinitesimal craving that every brand craves for but in...
4 January, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Dum Pukht restaurants across India: A culinary pilgrimage through space and time
Walking into any Dum Pukht feels like stepping into a story, centuries...
4 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Venezuela 2026 is Bangladesh 1971: USA started the war, won it and gained everything. India responded to Pakistan’s attack, won the war but lost everything else
The parallel begins, as it must, with state violence against its own...
4 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Trump licks Venezuelan oil. Finds it tasty. Arrests and kidnaps corrupt head of state Maduro with wife. Sends Hegseth and oil co CEOs to loot at will, in a disorderly house
The familiar American media argument — that foreign intervention is inherently wrong...
4 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws Jobless growth in an inflationary 4th largest economy piles up money in real estate, gold and government contracts. Inequality becomes rigid with no jobs allowing social mobility
Gross Domestic Product measures the total value of goods and services produced...
3 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Why Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi could easily have been a British tool to control anti-imperialist anger in India
All things point to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi being admired in South Africa...
3 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Lazy Waste Bengal jots down another feather in its communist cap as author encounters lackadaisical sales staff in business house
The only activities around the whole of Bengal are 1) puja every...
3 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Was it the natural outcome of the Indian War of Independence to have Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as the first Prime Minister of India?
Netaji’s vision for India’s freedom was sharply at odds with that of...
3 January, 2026 | New Tech iPhones: A product for the wannabe middle class, bought on extended EMI plans
I have always bought underpriced phones but have been gifted expensive Android...
3 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics Management in Indian organisations still confuses noise with productivity
At its core, productivity is not about working harder or employing more...
2 January, 2026 | Urban Tales 2026: New Year sex overtakes festival sex in India — Quiet cultural shift to a new trend?
Data from fertility and health apps such as Clue, which track ovulation...
2 January, 2026 | Policy-Laws More tiger, no balm: India’s tiger success story running out of space: Triumphant conservation vs realtor encroachment
Appeasing the property dealer building ugly flats to moronic customers who will...
1 January, 2026 | Training Indian engineers being trained to be ‘Coolies in Suits.’ Fresher salaries unchanged for 2 decades. That’s the value associated with engineers
Indian students are conditioned to follow instructions mechanically rather than to think...
1 January, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Hidden gem in Gurugram: Ramada by Wyndham, Gurgaon sector 44 excels despite odds
The tone of the hotel is clearly set from the top. General...
1 January, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Aroma of generosity and taste at Hotel Lalit, New Delhi: Buffet lunch reigns supreme
Walking into The Lalit is always accompanied by a sense of expectation....
1 January, 2026 | Biz / Logistics How ₹20–₹25 lakh flats became ₹1 crore+ India’s real estate companies selling ignoring millions of customers
Rs 20 lakh to Rs 10 crore flats – the reasons involve...
31 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws Striking workers never had any clue as to whose instrument they have become. Patsies working for a ‘greater’ cause. Gig workers follow suit
Across India and the world, a pattern has emerged where protests are...
30 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics China’s debt trap diplomacy fizzling out of steam. Manufacturing and selling cheaper knock-offs is the only thing working for China
Despite having a smooth run of arm-twisting countries with a debt trap,...
26 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Who is a Marathi? Regional identity is so 1970s. India is now a melting pot with national pride
Nation is slowly replacing community. Most states of India today face this...
26 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Poverty high in USA after tariffs but Trump goes hunting ISIS in Africa. How will average American benefit from global cop drama?
Across the United States, poverty has spread into suburbs, small towns, and...
25 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Rs 62-lakh lawsuit: Old men barge into female flat owner’s rooms? Joint family concept of age being superior? Using humiliation for governance
This is about a social hierarchy that teaches people that authority is...
25 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Dubai: Destination 2010-2040. Governance with a long memory and a longer horizon
At the centre of Dubai’s vision stands His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin...
24 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Zombie society: Intelligence remains buried; service is a bad word; divorce rates high
We have become experts at normalising humiliation, inconvenience, mediocrity, and neglect. We...
24 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Why rich Indians are seeking other passports and poor foreigners are seeking an Indian life
For businesspeople, entrepreneurs, professionals and investors who travel frequently, the Indian passport’s...
24 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Farming vs city growth: Why should one compete with the other? Why can’t I live in a village and work as a CEO of a global corporation?
At the core of this dysfunction lies a deeper misconception about population,...
23 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics UAE-Oman: New frontier for Indian business
Indian traders have been active across the Arabian Sea for centuries, and...
23 December, 2025 | War Zone Pakistan Army, a rent-seeking security enterprise: From Kashmir to Saudi to Gaza
Instead of investing in democratic institutions, education, and industry, the new state...
22 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Global reserve currencies shape wars and conflict; India stays cautious
Oil, blood and paper money: How well does the Indian UPI payment...
22 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Gaza City and Islamabad: The new “Malnourished and Distressed” sister cities
Or: When Urban Stress Becomes a Civic Bonding Strategy In an unprecedented...
20 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Trump-onomics killing middle class USA. Who will pay the higher tariffed prices of essentials? Americans barely manage groceries
Family budgets across United States are experiencing the pinch of rising prices...
20 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws #NitinGadkari make traffic penalties unavoidable: Why unpaid challans must be inserted into car insurance premiums
India does not suffer from a shortage of traffic laws. It suffers...
19 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Delhi’s lakes murdered by ugly flats. Pollution grew. Stubble burning is a politician’s lie and a red herring for the stupid voting public
Delhi’s geographical position — between the Thar Desert and the Indo-Gangetic plains...
19 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Life and its sequence of choices: Partners, imperfection, jobs and a starting line every day
The partner who once seemed unwavering may reveal fragility. The one who...
18 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics USA bans immigration from 19 countries. USA’s swinging love-hate towards outsourced workforce from poor countries continues
USA has officially announced a full suspension of immigration from 19 countries...
16 December, 2025 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone A self-imposed dietary regime by a self-aware bong raised in North India OR living life with an Enlightened Indian Thali
The evolved and researched Indian diet is not about rejecting tradition. It...
16 December, 2025 | Urban Tales The pleasures of wearing a monkey cap in Delhi winter amid garlic infused raajma chawal and Pindi flavour chholey bhaturey
At 57, I have lived long enough to understand that some relationships...
15 December, 2025 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Your country is what it eats: More so for your economy and your culture
Large processing industries — meatpacking in the U.S., dairies in Europe, commercial...
15 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Busting communist Calcutta’s myth of riches as per GDP; seeing through its culture filter and finding out organized extortion
A horde of barely surviving population adding to the GDP does not...
15 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Hyderabad vs Indore: A comprehensive comparison for living, raising a family, and retirement
Readers are welcome to comment their stand on these two cities. We...
14 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws More small fridges sold to poor families does not mean they are getting rich. It means the woman can’t afford time for the family
More than millions of engineers and doctors, India needs public policy experts...
14 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics US President Donald Trump fishing for fire: How war has always been America’s most reliable export since the American Revolution
If Trump is fishing for a new war, it is because the...
14 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Bangladesh and Pakistan: Beggar economies, empty rations, fighter jets and the poverty beneath their wings
Pakistan, which can’t afford flour and vegetables for its people is buying...
14 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Naked in the joint family shower? That’s ghar ki baat. How the joint family mindset shapes India’s civic sense deficit
The private virtue–public vice paradox: The joint family provided social security in...
14 December, 2025 | Urban Tales The price of persuasion: How marketing trains us to overpay for less satisfaction
We routinely overpay for unclean, badly cooked meals in restaurants. At the...
14 December, 2025 | New Tech → Drones Subs Aircraft Cars F-16 sale. Pakistan remains a paid servant of the USA while India builds it own from 1947
Over decades, the two countries made sharply different strategic choices about how...
12 December, 2025 | Urban Tales City slickers think a cow’s husband is a buffalo and chocolate milk comes from brown cows
These people can code Python by age 12 but wouldn’t know how...
10 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws The government will not create jobs with dignity — jobs are not part of any political party’s agenda. Here’s how civil society can itself create jobs in India
India’s job creation strategy cannot depend on the government as no government...
10 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Valley of Kashmir or erstwhile Kingdom of Kashmir: A botched-up patch work by five characters; till Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah began clearing the 72-year-old mess in 2019
Kashmir was rendered a mess by five people. Talk about too many...
10 December, 2025 | Urban Tales The hypocrisy index: India’s overpriced salons; How they are an irrelevant showcase to the Indian economy
The (dis)comfort and cluelessness that we are rewarded with in India’s mismanaged...
10 December, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Indian duopolies: The Internet driven version of neo-License Raj socialism; an autopsy of our two-horse economy
The all-pervading Internet and India’s selective bureaucratic policy has ensured that regional...
10 December, 2025 | Urban Tales Delhi’s vanishing lakes: How an ancient urban ecosystem was buried under ugly flats
Illiterate and corrupt bureaucrat activity: What was once a lake, became “unused...
8 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Indian thrift: Be it grandpa’s Ambassador car, IAF’s Jaguar fighter planes, or granny’s clothes
The Jaguar is unique. It was designed for “low-level deep penetration.” It...
8 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws → GeoPolitics Putin at 73, Modi at 75, Xi at 72 — with no publicly acknowledged succession plan
Despite differences in their individual characteristics, all three leaders, Vladimir Putin of...
8 December, 2025 | Biz / Logistics IndiGo did not crash: IndiGo dragged its feet on higher cost directives from DGCA
A big fat apology costs nothing. IndiGo may have hoped that people...
5 December, 2025 | New Tech Facebook is still king; A snapshot of the numbers
One of the biggest advantages of Facebook is its structural flexibility. Whereas...
5 December, 2025 | Policy-Laws The Putin-Modi bloc: Will they? Won’t they?
Su-57 for the Indian Air Force retiring most of Su-30 MKI: strategic...
4 December, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Tata’s at Air India: Damn, I know I left my Boeing 737 somewhere
The fact that an entire aircraft could slip through the cracks and...
3 December, 2025 | New Tech → Medical India’s health insurance: Can NHCX and global models guide a balanced, sustainable future?
Bilateral talks between government officials, insurers, and hospital bodies sought to reduce...
3 December, 2025 | War Zone Bullet with a brain? Russia’s Poseidon; Autonomous super-cavitating torpedo
This article explores the technology, evaluates expert commentary from Jane’s Defence Weekly,...
30 November, 2025 | War Zone Project 17A and why INS Taragiri matters as a new milestone for the Indian Navy
The delivery of INS Taragiri to the Indian Navy under Project 17A...
30 November, 2025 | Urban Tales Shootouts in USA: What the old cowboy code teaches about surviving a gun-toting, trigger-happy society
What rules did the cowboys of the United States follow so that...
30 November, 2025 | War Zone Ukraine’s pressure on Russia: Nov 29th’s attack on oil freighters with drone boats after Operation Spiderweb on June 1, 2025
Ukraine’s strategy invites comparison with Nazi Germany starving Britain. During WWII, German...
29 November, 2025 | Policy-Laws Selling off Indian nuclear assets to private sector who have never seen a cyclotron? University >> incubator >> start-up, is the correct route to strength in national nuclear industry
India’s Nuclear Sector Pivot: From State Monopoly to Private Power. How can...
28 November, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Hyper-local delivery = digital Wal-Marts. The shrinking world of skilled work — how convenience is rewriting labour and health
Hyper local delivery: A process where farmers, electricians, plumbers, painters, masons, carpenters,...
27 November, 2025 | Policy-Laws Not social security; PM Modi trying to enlarge taxpayer footprint with new Labour Codes 2025
Getting the unorganised labour force to become a stable tax-paying, semi-white-collar citizen...
26 November, 2025 | Biz / Logistics The vanishing innovation premium: Why Tesla, Toyota Prius, iPhones and once-revolutionary products can no longer charge what they used to
Telsa sales are falling. Toyota Prius went out of the running a...
22 November, 2025 | Urban Tales Connaught Place, Delhi is a heritage icon. Repeat it again elsewhere in a better version
How about a new Connaught Place in Delhi Dwarka, old Gurgaon, Greater...
22 November, 2025 | Policy-Laws Is this a war we are winning? India’s exports to China climbed seven months in a row
CEIC’s monthly data for India’s exports to China (spanning decades) does not...
22 November, 2025 | Policy-Laws Indian Labour Codes 2025: Why laws alone cannot transform an economy
By global standards, the Labour Codes 2025 reforms move India closer to...
21 November, 2025 | Policy-Laws Greater Israel is the only hope for suppressing terrorism and continued conflict in the Middle East to further democracy
The benefits of expanding a positive economy and strengthened democracy in a...
21 November, 2025 | Policy-Laws India–Israel defence and intelligence ties: Strategic convergence in the age of commerce
Signing on Terms of Reference for an FTA, will definitely lead to...
19 November, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Indian Railways: Outsourcing operations won’t help. Analyzing the case for quality driven success through an equity funded, publicly traded entity
The drive for commercial efficiency can significantly benefit Railways employees. A capital-intensive,...
19 November, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Indian Navy ops or boardroom / shopfloor ops: Mirroring each other in discipline, definition and decisions
Naval operations begin with clearly articulated strategic objectives flowing from national defence...
18 November, 2025 | Urban Tales The safari, the tour-ops saviour, and the snarling, ill-mannered Royal Bengal tiger
Looking a 280-kilo tiger in the eye, grinning, maneuvering the steering wheel...
17 November, 2025 | Biz / Logistics MICE rebounds: Ripple effects across pan-India footprint’s tour-operator and HoReCa sectors
How do tour operators and HORECA establishments maintain quality in India? Do...
11 November, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Real estate construction over destroyed Aravalli and lost forests add to Delhi’s pollution, stubble burning is a political lie
Continued erosion of Delhi’s ecological resilience by powerful local vested interests is...
7 November, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Maund of meat: global patterns in carbohydrate diet dependence and protein consumption
Looking at a “carbohydrate eating country index,” where the daily caloric intake...
2 November, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Slow end of the USA economy: A decline of the consumption empire
American waitresses go berserk if you do not tip them. However, they...
2 November, 2025 | Urban Tales Buy a flat, adopt a disease: Real estate and town planning are actually public health issues
The number of diseases is proportional to the number of rooms in...
2 November, 2025 | Biz / Logistics India’s 90-hour workweek myth: Long hours build neither wealth nor nations
Longer working hours reveal bonded labour mentality not innovation. India’s startups are...
30 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Skyroot Aerospace: Igniting India’s private space revolution with its own rocket
As the global space economy shifts toward private innovation, India too is...
30 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics X-P4 Fixed-Wing VTOL from PteroDynamics: An electric folding-wing UAV built for critical logistics missions
For critical logistics missions — medical resupply, disaster response, spare-parts delivery to...
30 October, 2025 | GeoPolitics → Africa Africa’s financial revolution: How stronger development banks, green mobility, and fiscal shifts are rewriting the continent’s future
African regional development lenders have fortified their capital positions, setting the stage...
29 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Skilling by age 18: Here’s how India can bridge its learning-to-earning gap
For millions of young Indians who turn 18 every year, it’s not...
29 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Laws against sexual harassment? Fine. What about laws to mandate healthy sexual interaction in the workplace? And clean toilets too
Human Resource managers are trained to groom robots for work, which do...
28 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws The Great Aravalli and Ladakh Land Grab: How India’s hills are being sold, one definition at a time and how crooked elements manufacture their own legality
Denude forests, narrow the legal definition of hills and forests, then every...
27 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics The great Indian matchmaking masquerade: When suns-car veers towards swiping right
The Indian matchmaking complex is a chrysalis of sanskaar (values, culture), desperately...
27 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics How Indian EduTech bankrupted itself with advertising and events, and educated nobody
Education, and EduTech unlike banking or healthcare, cannot be safeguarded through compliance....
26 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Clean toilets in India: Railways stations, interstate bus stations, government schools will never have them because the lower-middle-class personnel have no idea about quality
Civic sense and cleanlines are not part of the social curriculum in...
26 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Breaking collegium is NOT judicial reform; it will only pass the power to harass victims from judges to politicians and bureaucrats. The common man will gain nothing
Parliament is keen to break the collegium system and take on the...
25 October, 2025 | Urban Tales Why do Indians settle for goosebumps instead of SOPs that win – systematically and scientifically?
Corporate India and military India are full of stories of how Indians...
25 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party to be crowned in 180+ seats in Bihar Assembly 2025. Media sent on a red herring trail just like in Bengal 2021
Jan Suraaj Party’s depth in campaigning, convincing and coalescing the masses has...
22 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party to tackle corruption, stupidity and ineffectiveness in Bihar Police rank and file
Once elected on November 14, 2025, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party to...
21 October, 2025 | GeoPolitics → Europe Immigrants from Muslim countries add to crime graph in Europe and subsequent arrests
Waiting for common law to tackle the immigrant induced crime in Europe...
20 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws The reason for this fight among IRCTC contractual workers is because Indian Railways is not run by a stock market listed company
A government department, which engages third party workers on the lowest bid...
20 October, 2025 | Training Commercial break: How Indian advertising lost the power to imagine and to excite the audience
Advertisements crafted in India no longer excite, invoke the imagination or even...
20 October, 2025 | New Tech How Russia faces simultaneous defeats on multiple fronts as Moscow’s strategic web unravels
Russia could face defeats on several fronts simultaneously — not because of...
20 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Prashant Kishor is a visionary, statesman and a stategist while Arvind Kejriwal was a liar, communist and a turncoat. Here’s how
As Bihar heads into a crucial political transition, Kishor’s Jan Suraaj movement...
19 October, 2025 | Urban Tales PoP in burfee, shampoo in milk, oil in paneer, sawdust in curries, fat in ghee, food adulteration goes unpunished in India
Only if the mandated fine becomes Rs 1 crore personally and Rs...
19 October, 2025 | New Tech → Medical mRNA vaccine research to cure ovarian cancer yet to cross the aspirational stage
Still premature to write home about. Still in its initial stages of...
19 October, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Experimental mRNA Vaccine Hints at Potential Against Glioblastoma (brain cancer)
Extracted from NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2024/glioblastoma-mrna-vaccine-layered-nanoparticle Although immunotherapy is now a mainstay...
19 October, 2025 | Training Is Ease-of-Doing business in manufacturing only restricted to government media campaigns?
Infotech companies are also hiring engineers despite the training and skills having...
19 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws “अब सत्तू समोसा खाइए — बिहार में भरावन ही नहीं, सोच भी बदल रही है”
प्रशांत किशोर के नेतृत्व में एक नई क्रांति — स्वाद में भी,...
19 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party set to bag 170+ seats in Bihar Assembly (and why my Excel sheet is crying)
My Excel sheet is currently undergoing electroshock therapy, but the numbers don’t...
18 October, 2025 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone The Barbecue Company, Live Grill Buffet & Bar: Hidden corner of Gurugram; trying hard to make a dent and become a regular hangout
Nestled in a quieter, more accessible pocket of the city lies a...
17 October, 2025 | New Tech New Dhvani missile is expected to be better and deadlier than Bhramos missile. That’s saying a lot
Dhvani flies at Mach 5 plus (over 7,400 km/h), faster than the...
17 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone uses AI to fight enemy air force and land forces
By September 2025, the Ghost Bat program was ahead of schedule, and...
16 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws PK as PM material? Prashant Kishor not to contest Bihar Assembly elections to focus on pan-India party organization build up
A victorious chief minister does not quite fit in to the general...
16 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Saudi Arabia’s prince MBS’s refusal to renew the petrodollar agreement, signals the end of USA’s ability to print more currency and fund its social, military and covert impetus
Half a century ago, the United States of America was the undisputed...
16 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics China trumps USA & Europe in surrogate battlefield. 10-day visa-free transit stay ensures sale of Chinese manufactured items at 5% of price in USA, Europe
100% tariff by USA on Chinese exports to USA won’t work, as...
15 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Farmer suicide in India? Ever heard of shareholder suicide? Farmers need to transfer land to a public company and turn into equity shareholders in blocks of 400-500 farmers
Shareholders only lose value of shares they hold. They never stress on...
15 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics U-Hawk: Redefining battlefield aviation through UAV pilotless Black Hawk technology
By early 2022, Sikorsky and DARPA successfully demonstrated the first fully autonomous...
13 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics India’s drone industry went from bureaucratic headache to billion-dollar blitz
Welcome to India’s great drone rush, a story where the government acts...
13 October, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Japan to add hydrogen-driven trains in rail network by 2030
Electric trains running with hydrogen as the fuel. That’s where Japan is...
13 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Institutional atrophy of higher education in Bihar: A diagnosis and prescription for governance revival
The sad state of Bihar’s universities and colleges. How Prashant Kishor’s new...
13 October, 2025 | Urban Tales Prashant Kishor is an astute statesman and social reformer, who clearly does not scratch his political opponents’ back to benefit from the stick-together, tony political club
PK has repeatedly been offered a political position of huge gain from...
10 October, 2025 | Urban Tales Prashant Kishor’s Bihar: window to the future of India’s knowledge and data-based public resource planning post politics
United Nations and Public Health Programmes in Africa were pilot projects for...
10 October, 2025 | Training The best start-up life: exist heavily on social media, splurge with venture capital and achieve nothing for net profit
You know who they are. Comment if you think anyone you know...
8 October, 2025 | Training I hired the dark horse waiting in the lounge: Sincerity shone over premium degrees and MNC seals on CVs
This is what leadership looks like—no title required. The degree? Irrelevant. The...
8 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Mindless Hiring vs Intelligent Hiring: Addressing that perpetual elephant in the board room
Hiring the right person is like looking for a spouse for your...
6 October, 2025 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Coffee chains and diners in India: Stumbling on the simple rules of hospitality
The diner chains in India – Cafe Coffee Day, Starbucks, Barista etc....
6 October, 2025 | New Tech Credit cards: Sold by the dozen sans safety checks and customer needs
The SCAPIA credit card, which is being touted as a co-branded one,...
5 October, 2025 | Urban Tales Dash of Vaastu? OK. Tathaastu
Looks like India is built for peace, not prosperity according to Vaastu...
5 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws Ever heard of an IAS officer resigning to start his own, lucrative independent practice? No, and you never will
The core expertise of the IAS is navigating the state and its...
5 October, 2025 | Policy-Laws India’s laggard car and auto market: It’s not the roads — It’s the wallet
India has over 6.3 million kilometers of roads, making it the second-largest...
1 October, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Condom sales during Indian festival season: Healthy uptick happens every year. 50% up guesstimate for 2025
Why doesn’t the condom manufacturing industry have a regular trade association churning...
29 September, 2025 | Policy-Laws UPI led inflated GDP growth: The Indian economy conundrum that is not desirable
Any non-productive activity, which also involves transfer of money through UPI, will...
28 September, 2025 | Policy-Laws Why “European-Americans” don’t exist: The curious case of “Caucasians” in American identity
The United States of America has African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Indian-Americans and even Native-Americans....
27 September, 2025 | Policy-Laws Avoiding gyms? Seeking out finished clothes’ factories? Structured cabling? You need better trainers in gyms, ITIs and fashion schools
Education in India has been a shoddy affair. That is why PM...
26 September, 2025 | Policy-Laws Indian Big4? A PM’s announcement will not do. We need process, brands and discipline
Not a single chartered accountant firm or law firm in India has...
25 September, 2025 | Policy-Laws Contingent contract: One simple reform to improve the Indian judicial system overnight. Lawyer gets paid only if the case is won in time
Today, lawyers get paid per filing and per hearing. This has made...
15 September, 2025 | New Tech Unfinished Su-57 not good for Indian Air Force; can’t even accomodate Brahmos in bomb bay
Lack of funds and lack of good management in Russia has rendered...
1 September, 2025 | New Tech Cars will adapt. No panic required. E20-E30 petrol is good for the Indian farmer
The Indian sugar industry and the Indian sugarcane growing farmer had this...
30 August, 2025 | Policy-Laws Foreign company to supervise India’s fighter jet production? Recipe for Atm Nirbhar Bharat?
The Tejas fighter jet cannot fly without a GE404 engine from the...
30 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Devorto: This drone never has to land. It could become a satellite below the stratosphere limit
Solar powered batteries during the day and discharging during the night. Borrowing...
30 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics VT1: VTOL Quadcopter cum fixed wing drone with 2 hours and 30 minutes flight time
This ambidexterous drone uses legacy connectivity channels resulting in a highly effective...
30 August, 2025 | New Tech Young sailors in United States Navy subs find it easier to adapt with use of Xbox controllers instead of the old expensive control panels
Xbox controllers are used to operate advanced photonic masts on Virginia-class submarines,...
30 August, 2025 | New Tech Nuclear power may not be that modern after all. Here’s proof
What if ancient civilizations had observed this kind of nature’s developments and...
28 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics It’s a UAV bat. Can a robin or even an eagle be far behind? Festo’s creation delights the senses
With a wingspan of 228 centimetres and a body length of 87...
28 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Gliders with jet engines: Best small aircraft with the most promising future
Gliding requires no fuel but a glider cannot take off on its...
28 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Russian oil refinery still burning after Ukraine military drone attack. Drone attacks persist in Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine’s HUR military spy agency said it had conducted a joint operation...
24 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics My last flight on Air India; Never again
AIR INDIA harassed me on my last flight home from Calcutta to...
17 August, 2025 | New Tech When the Soviet Union made the MiG-25 Foxbat to counter the SR-71. A hurried and resource hungry aircraft and project
A Soviet pilot defected to the United States. Did it help the...
8 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Alpha 900 helicopter UAV can land on a moving cargo ship, aircraft carrier
Besides, SAR operations, LIDAR operations, infrastructure analysis, topographic surveying, border control maritime...
24 July, 2025 | New Tech DRDO’s Archer-NG UAV to attain multi-role combat status with Astra BVRAAM and AESA Radar
Such UAVs will significantly reduce dependence on fighter jet support in the...
23 July, 2025 | New Tech Dhaka military plane crash: The F-7 aircraft, is a modernised version of the Chinese Chengdu J-7 being used against India by Pakistan
How good are Chinese aircraft? Can they last a week long war?...
23 July, 2025 | New Tech Indian Defence Procurement Board okays purchase of 87 medium altitude long endurance drones from Indian companies
The number of drones required by the forces has been determined by...
21 July, 2025 | New Tech Seven reasons why Israeli consultant on military affairs – Retd General Zvi B Canaan (Israeli Air Force) ruled out the Rafale for Israel
According to Air Chief Marshall Dhanoa’s report, the Rafale is better than...
19 July, 2025 | New Tech CATS Warrior UAV bears genes from Tata Elxsi, Rolls Royce and other high-pedigree engineering giants. LCA Tejas to serve as mother ship
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited successfully conducted the engine ground run of a full-scale...
18 July, 2025 | New Tech Toyota researchers are gaining ground on hydrogen fuel cars; not water fuel cars
Social media is abuzz with how Toyota is developing a water driven...
12 July, 2025 | Policy-Laws ऑपरेशन सिन्दूर में लड़ाकू हवाईजहाज गिरने या न गिरने के बारे में कोई सीधा जवाब क्यों नहीं देता? बालाकोट और सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक में तो ऐसा नहीं हुआ था। क्या माननीय प्रधान मंत्री जी Dassault Aviation दस्सो अवियसो को आड़े हाथो लेकर सोर्स कोड उगलवाना चाहते हैं ?
यह पहली बार हुआ होगा की लड़ाई दो देश लड़ रहे है...
11 July, 2025 | Policy-Laws Op Sindoor loss of fighter: Mind games afoot? Is this to force Dassault’s arm in handing over source code? What do we know?
This would be the first time that the manufacturer of a fighter...
1 July, 2025 | New Tech Lab Gold achieved by scientists at CERN
Just like Hall’s aluminum extraction process made aluminium cheaper than silver in...
1 July, 2025 | New Tech China’s official military channel unveils mosquito sized microdrone for it’s special covert missions
Chinese state owned media, telecast a video, in which the scientists are...
1 July, 2025 | New Tech China reportedly releases new massive mother ship drone with high altitude flight and high range of operation
Such technologies are usually susceptible to functioning glitches from either lack of...
30 June, 2025 | New Tech Raphe mPhibr raises $100m private funding for bigger facilities in mass manufacturing of combat ready drones
Raphe mPhibr is looking at a greater production capacity to churn out...
30 June, 2025 | War Zone Operation Midnight Hammer indicates that Pakistan will not break up into four pieces as surmised by geopolitics experts. USA needs Pakistan as a supply garage. Terror is just another industry. Right?
Where do you find a handyman who does not ask questions, sells...
25 June, 2025 | War Zone Post Operation SpiderWeb, Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow apartments, oil rigs, why does Russia believe that it can hide its fighter aircraft from Ukrainian drone attacks?
Tatarstan, Russian drone factory, 1,000 km away from Russia-Ukraine border, five Russian...
24 June, 2025 | War Zone Posters across Israel egged on Trump to bomb Iran. Why can’t India convince Trump to destroy Pakistan’s terror network?
That would be the day when B2 – Spirit bombers drop bunker...
22 June, 2025 | Training Drone operator and drone pilot – what is the difference in Europe?
Laws for drone pilots in Europe and their counterparts – the drone...
22 June, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Airbus lays the foundations for future urban air mobility in Germany with the Air Mobility Initiative
The joint projects are centered around three main areas: electric vertical take-off...
22 June, 2025 | New Tech Boeing company, Wisk Aero unveils autonomous air taxi with safety in focus
Wisk Aero claims their latest offering to be a Generation 6 aircraft...
20 June, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Drone sports organisers look at a growing future, facing consolidation stage
The organizers of drone sports are largely scattered across the world and...
18 June, 2025 | Biz / Logistics Abandoned dog rescued using drone; lured with dangled sausages
It happened in the British highlands. This dog was thousands of miles...
18 June, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Micro drones to swim inside the human body directed by sound waves generated from outside
Dr. Cho’s research will receive funding specifically from the NSF National Robotics...
18 June, 2025 | New Tech Mugin presents EV350 (kit) – A full electric carbon fiber VTOL UAV platform
EV350 is lighter and more durable than other airframes that made of...
18 June, 2025 | War Zone Drone factory in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, Russia, 1,000 km away from Kyiv; 2,300 km by road attacked by Ukraine
The attacked factory was manufacturing drones for war that had been designed...
18 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Politics What if Padma Shri Kartik Maharaj becomes Bengal’s new chief minister if BJP wins the Bengal Assembly? কার্তিক মহারাজ কি বাংলার মুখ্য মন্ত্রী হতে পারেন?
Bengal’s politics has been shaped by freebies, laziness, excuse of culture, and...
2 March, 2026 | GeoPolitics → Israel - West Asia Widen the Strait of Hormuz: Kill this chokepoint
Widening a marine strait is not without precedent in concept. Humans have...
2 March, 2026 | Urban Tales → Foodie Zone Crispy cauliflower is heaven. Don’t spoil it with politically correct semantics
Arrogant meat? Humble vegetable? Seriously? Yes, trueCrispy cauliflower tastes greatBut why does...
27 February, 2026 | New Tech → Medical India’s hospitalization insurance model does not promise health insurance. How to add preventive healthcare habits to prevent diseases altogether?
The Indian so-called health insurance model reflects the structural flaws of Indian...
15 February, 2026 | New Tech Dumb agricultural practices treat pesticides as one cookie-cutter fits all; do we have a thinking farmer in the house?
Farmers are often portrayed as resistant to change, but the reality is...
11 February, 2026 | Training UDISE government data shows alarming school dropout figures; without school level education the whole country may turn into UttarDesh, Bihar type cesspools
According to government data from UDISE (Unified District Information System for Education),...
15 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Surviving while living on the edge of an overheated and sagging per capita economy
Traditional assumptions about stability have quietly collapsed. Jobs that once appeared permanent...
8 January, 2026 | Urban Tales Scammers sell non-existent hotels or shoddy experiences through social media: The age of disappearing hospitality
Traditional hospitality critics from established media outlets were sidelined. Why wait for...
28 December, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Professor Tal Dvir and team at Tel Aviv University 3D print new human heart with fat stem cells
The cells are mixed with extracellular matrix material derived from the patient’s...
9 October, 2025 | New Tech This engine from France’s engineering labs doesn’t burn fuel – it manipulates ionized gases
With sustainability, silence, and high efficiency, this could be the propulsion system...
9 October, 2025 | New Tech → Medical Cleaning up the brain: Nano-particles flush the brain off proteins, which clog BBB channels
Bio-active nanoparticles have restores the brain’s blood-brain barrier and clear toxic proteins,...
21 September, 2025 | Policy-Laws Nefarious and Dumb! Attaining GDP growth in India by increasing the salary cost of government!
As you keep paying government employees more the GDP will keep growing...
2 September, 2025 | New Tech How Israel disabled the Iranian air defence system to attack targets without hurdles
Smuggled drones inside Iran to launch them and confuse the Iranian air...
25 August, 2025 | Biz / Logistics আমার শেষ এবং চূড়ান্ত এয়ার ইন্ডিয়া ফ্লাইট ২৯ জুলাই, ২০২২। আর কখনো নয়! রক্ষে করো ঠাকুর।
সেই শেষ বার যখন AIR INDIA র বিমানে যাত্রা করে ছিলাম July...
9 July, 2025 | New Tech → Medical South Korea tests nano-drones injected into blood streams to detect and kill cancer cells
Cancer arises from chronic irritation in any part of the body; it...
9 July, 2025 | New Tech Efforts on the product by the CEO yield a world class saleable item; Steve Job’s attention to detail was legendary
Just focussing on the revenue streams and profit centre workflow and people...
24 June, 2025 | War Zone What Operation Midnight Hammer Means for the Future of Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: https://www.csis.org/
What planning and what large scope of resources. The United States outruns...
22 June, 2025 | Urban Tales How to make Kolkata into Calcutta – a smarter city? A citizen’s effort with PPP
A step by step approach to leap frog out of the lazy,...
22 June, 2025 | New Tech Upteko with Danish roots, prepares groundwork and foundation for a smart environment with drones and backend engineering
Upteko, a great team of passionate drone, electronic, software, and hardware engineers...
20 June, 2025 | Policy-Laws A comparative look at drone policies, laws, which are still at a sapling stage; growing everyday
Which way are the drone laws going? Difficult to say as drone...