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In 2010, the people of Haiti went to vote. It had been a devastating year. A catastrophic earthquake had killed over 200,000 people. Entire neighbourhoods had turned to rubble. Families were living in tents. And yet elections were held. International observers flew in. The world applauded. Six months later, those same tent cities were still standing. The vote had happened. The suffering had not stopped. The Promise and the Reality Every democracy in the world is built on a beautiful idea: Power belongs to the people. But somewhere between that idea and real life, something gets lost. In 2016, residents…

10 March carries a remarkable weight of history. Across more than two thousand years, this single date has witnessed the end of ancient wars, the redrawing of national borders, the seizure of power by force, the signing of colonial treaties and the loss of celebrated voices in literature and the arts. From the shores of Sicily to the streets of Havana, from the plains of West Africa to the earthquake-damaged schools of California, the events of this day span continents, centuries and consequences. What follows is a chronological account of ten moments that shaped the world. Rome ends the First…

Not according to the almanac your pandit opens before naming an auspicious muhurat. Not according to the calendar your grandparents used for every wedding, every naming ceremony, every first grain. Not according to Nepal’s government, which runs its courts, its schools, and its hospitals by a system of reckoning that ticks quite differently from the one on your phone. According to Vikram Samvat, the ancient Indian lunisolar calendar running without interruption for over two thousand years, it is currently Samvat 2082. India’s civilisational clock runs approximately 57 years ahead of the world’s administrative standard. Sit with that. It raises a…

Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First is not simply a history of Israel’s intelligence services. It is a meditation on the uneasy marriage between morality and raison d’état in the modern world. Written with the authority of a seasoned investigative journalist, the book traces the evolution of Israel’s policy of targeted assassination from the state’s founding to the present day, situating it within the broader dilemmas of global counterterrorism and clandestine warfare. A Nation’s Doctrine, Drawn From Ancient Wisdom At its core, Bergman’s narrative is about survival. Israel, a small state surrounded by hostile neighbours, developed a doctrine that prioritised…

March 9 has witnessed moments that altered the course of empires, economies, science and sport. Here is a look at ten events that made this date matter. Emperor Wu Takes the Han Throne – 141 BC Liu Che ascended to power in China at a young age and went on to rule the Han Dynasty for 54 years. Known posthumously as Emperor Wu, he expanded China’s territory significantly, pushed trade along the Silk Road and left a legacy that shaped Chinese civilisation for centuries. Few rulers in history governed for as long or as consequentially. Cabral Sets Sail for India…

From AIIMS Ward to UPSC Rank One: Anuj Agnihotri and the Anatomy of India’s Toughest Exam On some nights during his internship at AIIMS Jodhpur, Anuj Agnihotri would finish stitching a patient’s wound, wash his hands, and return to a different kind of case file. That was, ‘The Indian Constitution’. In the quiet hours after emergency rounds, between ward calls and exhaustion, he revised polity, economy, and ethics. The scalpel and the syllabus shared his time. Three years later, on Friday, 6 March, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced the Civil Services Examination results. Agnihotri, 26, from Rawatbhata near…

The commute was punishing. The office was rigid. But embedded in all of it was a mercy that nobody noticed until it was gone. There was a time when work in India was exhausting but containable. The suburban train was punishing. The traffic was relentless. The office hierarchy was rigid. But embedded in all of it was a psychological mercy: work had a geography. You left home. You travelled. You arrived. You returned. The commute, whether on Mumbai’s crush-loaded locals, Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Road crawl, or Delhi’s Metro, was not merely transport. It was a boundary ritual. It separated the…

March 7 has witnessed moments that cut across empires, science, religion and sport. A Roman decree, a royal rejection, a stolen heiress and a batting record that rewrote cricket history all share this date. The ten events below trace a path from ancient Rome to a cricket ground in Ahmedabad. Antoninus Pius Dies and Rome Gets Two Emperors for the First Time – 161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius died on this day, triggering an arrangement that had no precedent in Roman history. He was succeeded not by one emperor but two – Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus ruled as co-emperors.…

Think about the best leader you have ever known. Not the most famous. Not the most powerful. The best. The person who made you feel seen. The manager who stayed late not to look good but because the work mattered. The teacher who changed the direction of your life with a single conversation. The local councillor who actually showed up. The doctor who ran the understaffed ward like it was the only ward in the world. Now ask yourself one honest question: where are they today? Chances are, they are exactly where you found them. Still in that classroom. Still…

Tamil Nadu does not reject the BJP emotionally. It rejects it structurally. Political Analysis | Tamil Nadu | Strategic Affairs For six decades, the state’s politics has been organised around a Dravidian axis: social justice, linguistic pride, welfare expansion, and calibrated regional autonomy. Any party seeking power here must operate within that grammar. The Bharatiya Janata Party has made incremental gains. But it remains an outsider to the Dravidian consensus. Now, the emergence of actor Vijay and his political formation, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, complicates the chessboard further. The 2026 Assembly election will not merely test the BJP’s growth. It will…