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Bill Moyers, Public Television Icon and Conscience of American Journalism, Dies at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of America’s most revered broadcast journalists, died on Wednesday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He was 91. The cause was complications from prostate cancer, his son, William Cope Moyers, said. Over a career that spanned more than five decades and included…
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Shubhanshu Shukla Is Floating in Orbit. For India, It’s More Than Just a Ride.
It took India 41 years to get back to space. On June 25, 2025, at exactly 12:01 p.m. IST, a Falcon 9 rocket cut through the skies above Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. In its capsule, among a four-member international crew, sat Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, an Indian Air Force test pilot, one-time MiG flyer, and…
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Fifty Years Since India’s Democracy Was Locked Away
“I was just 17, when at 4 a.m., I was dragged out of my house and booked under three separate Acts. I was in jail for a month. I was underage, so MISA couldn’t be applied, but it didn’t matter. Both my parents, freedom fighters, were jailed too.”— Aruna Gaur, Jaipur-based politician and social worker,…
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The Forgotten Architect of India’s Right: Remembering Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
India today is led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, a party that traces its ideological roots not just to Hindutva but to one man who died under suspicious circumstances in 1953: Syama Prasad Mookerjee. His name isn’t always on the headlines, but without him, the modern Indian Right wouldn’t exist. Early Years: Scholar First, Politician…
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Israel Iran War: India Can’t Sit This One Out
In the last 48 hours, the Middle East has shifted irreversibly. The United States, for the first time in history, used a Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bunker-buster on Iranian nuclear infrastructure. Seven B‑2 bombers and over 125 fighter jets participated. A U.S. submarine launched missiles at Iran’s Isfahan facility, signaling the most aggressive strike…
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India’s Health Insurance System Is Quietly Abandoning Its Elders
Try getting private health insurance for a 70-year-old with diabetes. Or worse, try using it. What you’ll find is not just a flawed system, but a rigged one. In India today, senior citizens are not just underserved by health insurers, they are being actively priced out, legally excluded, and quietly pushed out of the risk…
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Yoga Was India’s Quiet Strength. Modi Turned It Into a Global Movement
This morning, tens of millions across India and abroad rolled out yoga mats and stood in Tadasana. In Visakhapatnam, a 26-kilometer stretch of beach turned into one giant open-air yoga hall. In Ladakh, soldiers practiced pranayama at 17,000 feet. On the banks of the Seine, Downward Dogs met Eiffel views. It’s the 11th International Day…
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India Embraces 11th International Yoga Day with Nationwide Vigor
VISAKHAPATNAM, India — On June 21, 2025, India celebrated the 11th International Yoga Day with a surge of energy, as millions gathered at dawn for synchronized yoga sessions across beaches, parks, and historic sites. Under the banner “Yoga for One Earth, One Health,” the nation hosted over 100,000 events, weaving together physical practice and a…
