My biggest takeaway during this pandemic is a lesson in positivity. I have realised that it is only by being positive even at times of despair, that one can stay level headed and strive ahead in times of dire need and crisis. The book by Dr. Joseph Murphy titled How…

On the ending of the Michael-Schur directed American fantasy/comedy series, The Good Place, there have been two rather peculiar lines of opinion. An example of the first is to be found in Joshua Rivera’s review. Rivera says that the end of the show is for him a contrast to the…

As some of the protesting farmers who had been camped outside the national capital of India, on the border that it shares with Punjab/Haryana, apparently performed a takeover of Delhi on Republic Day this year, there were many eyebrows raised at the seeming undue aggression. The farmers had, after all…

Disclaimer: I, Ekalavya Chaudhuri, am a student of English Literature, interested in the interface of climate change and literary fiction. This is a personal opinion piece. In 2005, Bill McKibben wrote an influential and widely regarded essay in which he asked where the novels, or poems, or plays, about climate…

Is a financial system on planet Earth that is free of any kind of economic bias a utopian idea? In large measure, not necessarily. Cryptocurrency can indeed be that kind of thing. But India happens to have a problem with it. What is cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is a form of electronic currency across the…

On February 7, 2021, a slice of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off in India’s northern state Uttarakhand. As I sit here in Kolkata in West Bengal, quite a lot of distance away to the east, the ramifications have spread. …

Probably no one would argue that there is optimal efficiency in India’s agricultural sector. …

“I was looking at your website a few minutes ago,” Congressman GK Butterfield said to Mr Mark Zuckerberg during a testimony-giving related to Facebook, “and it looks like you list five individuals as leadership in your company, but none of them is African American. I was just looking at it…

The French philosopher Voltaire once quipped in his time that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. In ours, most liberal, tolerant, open-outlook university campuses are neither liberal nor tolerant nor have an open outlook. In the US for example (which, for reasons better or…