Delhi Chow

Melt House: The Hidden Gem of M Block

There is something conspiratorial about M-Block Market in Greater Kailash: a geometry of terraces, drifting cigarette smoke, the murmured calculus of Delhi friendships being negotiated over flat whites and fries. Up two flights above the crush, where boutique signage glints against the winter haze, sits Melt House, a café that seems to believe in the […]

downfall of BBC MEDIA

How the BBC Lost Its Moral Signal

In the lobby of Broadcasting House, beneath the polished modernism and the Reithian motto—“Nation shall speak peace unto nation”—the BBC still carries itself like an inheritance and now more like a liability. It is not merely a broadcaster but a civic monument: funded by license fee, insulated by Charter, invoked in moments of war and […]

Ai Tech

The Robo-dog that is Indian!

In the crowded exhibition halls of the India AI Impact Summit, amid LED-lit kiosks and earnest PowerPoint promises, a four-legged creature padded forward with improbable grace. Its gait was cautious but purposeful, its aluminum spine flexing, its camera-eyes blinking awake to a room of curious faces. Children squealed, engineers leaned closer, and one elderly visitor […]

SPORTS

A Coin Toss Under a Billion Eyes

On a mild evening that smelled faintly of roasted peanuts and distant fireworks, the latest chapter of cricket’s most anxious romance unfolded between the India national cricket team and the Pakistan national cricket team. The match had been anticipated with a nervousness that felt less like sport and more like weather—something seasonal, inevitable, and slightly […]

Perspective

Rahul Gandhi: The Final Nail to the Coffin?

There are political parties that decline like empires, with maps shrinking year by year, and there are those that decline like dynasties, quietly hollowed from within. The story of the Indian National Congress in the twenty-first century seems, to many observers, to be both at once—a grand old party reduced to a relic of nostalgia, […]

Anushka and Virat move to London Grape wine

‘GoodBye India’ from ‘Virushka’?

Cricket’s golden boy and Bollywood’s favorite girl-next-door may be packing their designer suitcases for a fresh chapter across the seas—and the rumor mill is in full, sparkly motion! Sources close to power couple Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma say the duo has been quietly exploring a semi-permanent move from India to the chic neighborhoods of […]