In our current culture, we celebrate "originality" as if it were a spark that appears out of a vacuum. We praise the "self-made" billionaire or the "singular" artist. However,...
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In a world that celebrates the harvest but ignores the planting, we have become obsessed with the "bloom." We live in a culture of the visible: the promotion, the vacation photo,...
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Friendship, in its truest form, is not built on fear, obedience, or submission. It is built on trust—the kind that allows a person to speak freely without the anxiety of...
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Life does not come with instructions. Most of what we learn comes from experience—often uncomfortable, sometimes painful. The saying “Don’t let the same dog...
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For generations, the heartbeat of Indian democracy was often filtered through language. To be heard in the Lok Sabha—the nation’s House of the...
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The closure of the Maithili Academy in Patna has triggered serious concern among scholars, writers, and cultural institutions, exposing a troubling gap between Bihar’s...
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In every civilisation, gods have been imagined with imperfections. They were powerful yet fallible, capable of anger, jealousy, error, and repentance. These flaws never reduced...
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For the first time since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, Sanskrit, the classical language of ancient India, has formally found its way back into Pakistani university...
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Every nation carries its identity not only in its Constitution or its Parliament but in the music that stirs its people. India is unusual in that it celebrates two such...
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There are photographers who chase glory, and then there are those who chase truth. Martin Parr belonged firmly to the second group. His truth was not the polished truth of studio...
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