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2 weeks ago | thequint.com | Deepal Trivedi

The former Gujarat CM’s untimely death is a grim reminder of a life lived on the edge, writes Deepal Trivedi. Former Gujarat Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Vijay Rupani, who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash, was a humble human being, for whom human relationships and commitment mattered more than party positions. Rupani had a life filled with several surprises and setbacks—and his death is yet another grim reminder about how he always lived on the edge.

2 weeks ago | thequint.com | Debiparna Chakraborty

The 2014 comedy series Silicon Valley proved that pretty much the entire species of tech billionaires are psychopathic to the core. Created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, Silicon Valley had the luxury of presenting that reality with sharp humour, wit, and a kind of levity that Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead does not have. And that is a deliberate choice. What seemed like a poke at a possible future in 2014 has become reality within a short span of a decade.

3 weeks ago | thequint.com | Anoushka Rajesh

Experts question the role of air pollution in India's slow warming trend. ‘India’s Vital Efforts to Tackle Air Pollution Could Worsen Warming’‘If India Chokes Less, It Will Fry More’‘Controlling Air Pollution May Increase India's Temperatures’Attention-grabbing headlines like these have been circulating in recent months, sparking considerable confusion — the latest appearing in The Economist on 28 May.

3 weeks ago | thequint.com | Madhavan Narayanan

Neither Trump not Musk need the money; both want the power. But Trump is a dealmaker who likes to negotiate. If it were Africa, the ugly spat between US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk would be called an attempted coup. But in the US, they call it attempted impeachment. We have the world’s richest man endorsing a rebellion within the Republican Party, so that Trump would be replaced by his vice-presidential pick, JD Vance.

4 weeks ago | thequint.com | Raghav Bahl

As a five-year-old, I got what America did in an India-Pakistan war. As a 65-year-old, I'm still scratching my head!September 1965. I was nearly five years old, my sister a domineering two years older.Our father, a young IAS officer, was Deputy Secretary in the central government. We were staying at the D-II flats in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. One morning, our mother came into the kids’ room with reams of thick black chart paper and bottles of sticking gum.