Delhi E-Rickshaw Problem: Why the City Needs a Trial, Not Another Rant

Order, order. The court of public irritation is now in session. The accused: the e-rickshaw, a three-wheeled battery box with a legal top speed of 25 km/h and the moral confidence of a bullet train. The charges: wrong-side driving, sudden stops, blocking the lane outside every Metro station in the city. The complainants: anyone who has ever been stuck behind one at 9:05 a.m. The judge: a city that has been "reviewing the matter" since 2014. One warning before we begin. By the end of this hearing, the accused will not be the only one standing in the dock.

Dream Interpretation as a Career: The Job Nobody Offers When You Need It Most

It is 3:12 a.m. You sit up in bed, heart racing. In the dream, you were failing a maths exam you passed fifteen years ago. Or someone you lost was standing at the door. Or your teeth were crumbling like old biscuits. You reach for your phone and type "teeth falling out dream meaning," and a search engine gives you four thousand different answers. Nobody in your house is awake. Nobody you know is trained to hear this. And here is the strange part. Every single night, your mind posts you a letter, and nobody ever taught you to read the language it is written in.

And then you fall in love with someone and discover something slightly ridiculous: you may actually like the way they smell. It may have nothing to do with their perfume, shampoo, or the carefully engineered fragrance that came out of a bottle. Sometimes it is simply that unmistakable combination of skin, hair, sweat, and whatever else makes up the particular smell of a person you know intimately. You may not even be able to describe exactly what you like about it, but you recognise it immediately when that person walks into the room, lies beside you in bed or leaves a shirt on the chair.

Male Attraction to Long Hair: A Billboard Evolution Never Taken Down

There is something uncomfortable about looking at the modern world and noticing how many ordinary pleasures, habits, objects, and institutions have complicated imperial histories. A khaki jacket can now be a fashion statement. A gin and tonic can be an expensive bar order. Afternoon tea can be a luxury hotel experience. A botanical garden can be a peaceful Sunday destination. A mosquito net can mean a good night's sleep. A tiffin box can carry someone's homemade lunch to work. None of these things, however, arrived in the world in the simple form in which we know them today.

Colonialism was built around power, trade, military expansion, extraction and administration. It also created networks through which clothing, plants, medicines, architectural ideas, food habits, educational models and social institutions travelled between continents. Some were imposed. Some were borrowed. Some were already present and were simply given new meanings. Others escaped their original purpose completely and became part of everyday life.

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Kaguya-hime)

A simple retelling of Japan's oldest surviving story

Chapter 1: A Glowing Bamboo in the Forest

How an old bamboo cutter found a tiny girl inside a shining stalk

Long ago, in a small village in Japan, there lived an old man who cut bamboo for a living. Everyone called him the bamboo cutter. He and his wife were kind people, but they were sad because they had no children.

One morning, the old man went to the bamboo forest as he did every day. This time, one stalk of bamboo was glowing with a soft golden light. He was surprised. He looked closer and cut it open carefully.

Inside the stalk sat a tiny girl, no bigger than his thumb. She was the most beautiful baby he had ever seen. The old man smiled. "You must be meant for us," he said gently. He placed her in his hands and carried her home to his wife.

A book title that just might help...

Say "North West Frontier Province" to most Indians and the mental image that shows up is borrowed almost entirely from old war films and news footage — rugged hills, tribal rifles, a permanently restless border. What gets left out of that image is a far stranger, far more layered history: a province that was Congress-run in a Muslim-majority stronghold, home to the only fully nonviolent Muslim mass movement in recorded history, the site of a massacre that rivals Jallianwala Bagh in brutality but rarely gets taught alongside it, and for a good stretch of the 19th century, the actual western edge of a Sikh empire. Here are four things about this region that even well-read Indians tend to get wrong, or simply never learn at all.

Congress Ran a Muslim-Majority Province Right Up To Partition

Despite NWFP being the only Muslim-majority province in British India, it was governed not by the Muslim League but by a Congress-aligned ministry under Dr. Khan Sahib, brother of freedom fighter Bacha Khan. This upends the popular assumption that Muslim-majority regions automatically meant League strongholds in the run-up to 1947. NWFP's political loyalties were shaped less by religion and more by the Pashtun nationalist, anti-colonial politics of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement — making its eventual accession to Pakistan, decided by a contested 1947 referendum that Congress and Bacha Khan boycotted, far less of a foregone conclusion than most textbooks suggest.

The problem with a French fry that is trying too hard to be healthy!!

Anyone who has made chai on a gas stove knows that the flame decides everything. Keep it low and patient, and the leaves open up, the ginger softens, the milk turns the colour of a good afternoon. Push it to high because you are in a hurry, and the milk climbs the sides of the pot and spills over before you can reach for the ladle. Nobody blames the tea. People ask who turned up the flame.

That, in the end, is the question the Madras High Court has just asked about a marriage. Its answer has been read by many as a blanket rule against wives who want a separate home. It is not that simple, and the difference matters to every couple who has ever argued about where to live.

Madras High Court Verdict: Pressure to Live Separately as Cruelty

The Madras High Court recently held that a wife who forces an only son to leave the joint family and set up a separate residence, and who goes to her maternal home frequently without reason, commits cruelty against her husband. A bench of Justice PT Asha and Justice N Mala refused to disturb a Family Court order that had granted the husband a divorce on the ground of cruelty.

The case is reported as S v. S, Civil Miscellaneous Appeal No. 2942 of 2026 (2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 438). The wife appealed under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984, against a decree dated 8 July 2026 passed by the Family Court at Cuddalore. The High Court dismissed her appeal.

Why the Court Called It Cruelty

A lot of effort has been made to infuse some dark humor into They Will Kill You. Honestly, it works in patches. You will love Asia Reaves as Beetz - a woman who can do only wrong, including being in the wrong places, being penalized by the law, and learning a whole lot of violence wizardry during her time in prison. The movie takes no time to set up a storyline.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) premiered on JioHotstar in India on September 17, 2026. One look at the movie poster on the Jio app might make you believe that this is connected to the Mummy franchise that built and then destroyed Brendon Fraser. You are wrong! Lee Cronin's The Mummy is an entirely different movie. The content is not even remotely connected to the globally popular franchise. Lee Cronin's The Mummy is more like folklore without the special effects associated with the original. It is classified as a horror movie on Jio Hotstar, but you might not feel the scares. The movie is set in Egypt, where an American family is temporarily residing. It is their little daughter who falls into the darkness of a lady who is perhaps the vessel for an evil force. The little girl is kidnapped and returned to her family nearly a decade later. What happened during this time? Why does a teenage girl look like the possessed child from The Exorcist?

Body Horror is perhaps the right niche and definition for Lee Cronin's The Mummy. You will find plenty of it spread across the movie. Expect skin, nails, meaty flesh, hair, bodily fluids, and blood to take center stage every time a sequence builds up. The movie does not explain much. It does not dig into the origins of the prehistoric evil that is known to rip apart families - it is just there - sometimes in a mummified tomb and then as something that can be transferred from one vessel to the next medium. The good thing about Lee Cronin's The Mummy is that it does not relent.