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| CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call Education, reservations, and government jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the Chief Justice of India and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too. Read National Interest by Shekhar Gupta. | | | IAF at 93: Celebrations in the sky, worries on the ground The Indian Air Force turned 93 on 8 October. The occasion was celebrated with air displays, exhibiting much pride in the service’s glorious history—from 1932 to Balakot, Operation Sindoor, and beyond. But beneath the ceremonial splendour lies an uncomfortable truth—the IAF today faces one of the gravest capability crises in its history. Read the latest Brahmastra. | | |
| RSS and the Lindy Effect What does the RSS have to do with the Lindy Effect? The one that says the future longevity of an idea or technology is proportional to its survival time so far. The RSS turns 100, and that demonstrates its Lindy Effect, wrote R Jagannathan. Read In My Opinion for more. | | | Grim headlines tell us we need to think harder Like most civilisations, ours spends a great deal of energy evading death: the cosmetic surgeon, the personal trainer, the peddler of pills and potions, all these speak to the power of the cult of immortality. The strange thing, Daniel Soufi reports, is that our young are the unhappiest in history. Explanations for why this is vary, but suicide, depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders have risen sharply. More in Editor’s Choice. | | |
| TheFinePrint By Moushumi Das Gupta, Deputy Editor |  | From codes to regional languages: IITs go multilingual Overseeing live speech-to-speech translation of English lectures into 11 Indian languages, introducing full-fledged Hindi classes for first-year students, and testing professional courses in regional languages before expanding them to regular engineering programmes—the premier Indian Institutes of Technology are making bold moves to break language barriers and promote inclusive growth through regional language education. More in TheFinePrint. | | |
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