Guest Column

Climate change and disasters pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs across the world. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face...

When Anthropic, the American AI safety and research firm invited Swami Sarvapriyananda to its San Francisco headquarters to contemplate consciousness and ethics for its CLAUDE AI assistant, the technology vanguard...

Fourteen men were waiting outside our home when Akshaya, my husband, and I returned home for lunch. We had barely begun to step out of our newly-purchased Maruti van when...

Bhubaneswar: The mental health of urban populations is shaped not merely by biology or circumstance, but by the rhythms, structures and spatial logic of the cities people inhabit. The world...

A few days ago, two ladies, seemingly in their early thirties drove onto the wrong side of a road near Naka Gate and stopped directly in front of my car....

By 2050, approximately two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas, bringing a distinct set of challenges and opportunities for urban development. These challenges of rapid urbanisation include...

Einstein wrote a famous tribute for Mahatma Gandhi’s 70th birthday. “Generations to come, it may well be, will scarcely believe that such a man as this ever in flesh and...

A man allegedly burns down a textile market in Surat and goods worth about ₹24 crore are destroyed. The immediate explanation sounds almost absurd: ₹10,000 in unpaid salary. Police say...

A few days back, I visited DN Oxypark, one of our premium residential projects, to meet a close friend who lives there. He had purchased his apartment in 2012 and...

An electric scooter rolls out of a showroom, its buyer sees the purchase incentive immediately. It might take someone to work or join delivery riders in traffic. Nearby, an e-rickshaw...