Five years after the Taliban took back Kabul, the situation in Afghanistan remains complicated. Although the long war has largely ended, the Taliban now controls nearly the entire country. There …
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Schools Must Teach the Life Skills Students Actually Need
by Diya Somnaliby Diya Somnali 2 minutes readStudents spend years learning formulas, dates, and definitions. Yet many graduate without knowing how to manage money, understand basic health information, organize their time, or make confident everyday decisions. These …
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Opinion: America and the World Remember 9/11
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readSeptember 11, 2001, will always be a day of remembrance for America and the world at large. It was on this day the world’s invincible super-power came under attack from …
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Perhaps because many members of my family have been lawyers, I have been attracted to autobiographies of people in the legal profession, lawyers and judges both, since my teens. It’s …
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Someone said something to you once — maybe years ago, maybe last month — and it stayed. Not a dramatic insult. Something smaller. A remark. An opinion delivered casually, a …
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With just two decades only left India’s aspirational goal to become a developed nation by 2047, the centenary year of its freedom from colonial yoke, appears to point to a …
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For decades, the Indian career script was fixed: finish college, secure a stable job, and climb the corporate ladder for three or four decades. Engineering, medicine, civil services, and government …
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A day after Vice President JD Vance argued that what was going on in Iran is “not war,” President Donald Trump got into the definition game essentially supporting his Number …
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Ancient Questions, Modern Science: Exploring the Future of Healing
by Carol Wick, Special to South Asian Herald 6 minutes readFor thousands of years, healing traditions across South Asia have treated health as more than disease. Mind, body, environment and inner life were understood as connected, with meditation, breath, movement, …