-- By Ojaswita Palkar “A vote is priceless, but sometimes it’s sold for a snack or a day’s relief.” Money, Votes, and the Common Man Honestly, democracy sounds super cool in theory. Everyone gets to pick leaders, and your vote is supposed to matter. But in real life? It’s messy. Elections Be Like… Money, Liquor, and Freebies During election time, it’s not just speeches and promises. Parties literally hand out ₹500 or ₹2000, booze, free food, and groceries. And yeah, it’s most

-By Rudrangshi Saha Most of the world’s disasters aren’t born of apathy– apathy is harmless, even tender in comparison. What ruins nations, families, democracies, timelines is the epidemic of excessive caring: A chronic inflammation of opinion Lodged too deep in the throat to swallow back. Walk through a market and you’ll hear it; not bargaining, not laughter, but unsolicited devotion to the language you speak. The alphabet must match the flag, and the flag must match the fac

Now it may look like just another mayoral election somewhere in the world, nothing worth losing sleep over. But you should be bothered. Because that so-called random city happens to be New York, home to Wall Street, the financial control room of the modern world. What happens there doesn’t stay there. A policy shift in New York can tilt currencies in Asia, shake up oil prices in the Gulf, and decide how safe your savings are in Europe. I