The Global Herald — Contemporary Editorial

The Skill We Disrespect

India’s Middle-Income Trap Is A Dignity Trap. India celebrated becoming the fourth-largest economy. Kalaiyara-san A. says beneath lies a grim reality: we are drifting toward middle-income trap, where cheap labour gains end and productivity stalls. Weak job creation, stagnant wages, low productivity reinforce each other. Youth protests are the symptom.

By Cult Current Desk • 11 Sep 2026

External Affairs

The Unipolar Hangover

25 Years After 9/11, America Acts Alone In A World That No Longer Follows- When 9/11 happened, America was at its pinnacle. The USSR had collapsed, Russia was in chaos, China was a partner, NATO was expanding into Russia’s neighbourhood. Then came the “war on terror” — and, as Stanly Johny argues in this sharp 25-year audit, a series of regime-change wars that unwound that very primacy.

By Cult Current Desk • 11 Sep 2026

SOCIETY

Headline and Footnote

Pankaj’s ‘My Lady in Black’ Is About The Cost of Being Cleared- “It was very difficult. Once you are accused, it is headline material while acquittal is like a footnote.” That one quote by Pankaj, Additional Central PF Commissioner, is the core of his memoir My Lady in Black: Learning the laws to fight the flaws.

By Cult Current Desk • 11 Sep 2026

SOCIETY

Where A Foot-Scrubber Is Art

At Sanskriti, OP Jain Makes Everyday India Extraordinary. Entering the newly opened Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art & Indian Textiles inside Humayun’s Tomb complex, you are greeted by a 19th-century tiger mask and a brass breastplate from Karnataka. It is a fitting provocation — the museum insists that art is not what hangs in galleries, but what hangs in kitchens.

By Cult Current Desk • 11 Sep 2026

ECONOMY

Moksha With Mini-Bar

How Faith Became India’s Hottest Luxury Product- Ranjana and Vitthal Shete, scrolling on an iPad in Nepal, waited for a helicopter to Kailash Mansarovar. Cost: up to Rs 7 lakh. There was nothing wrong with seeking a peaceful, luxurious spiritual experience, says tour operator Yuvraj Lachke.

By Cult Current Desk • 11 Sep 2026

POLITICS

Battle For The Red Sea Gateway

120+ Dead As Houthis Launch Biggest Offensive In Years- More than 120 people have been killed in Yemen's deadliest clashes in years as Iran-backed Houthis launched a major offensive to seize control of the gateway to the Red Sea.

By Cult Current Desk 09 Sep 2026

No Walls, No Water, No Blackboards

India's Rural Schools Are Failing At The Basics- The photo says it all. A government middle school in Hirpur, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, is a dilapidated room with peeling walls, no benches, and a green mat on the floor. It doubles as the village panchayat office. This is Ground Zero of India's education crisis.

By Cult Current Desk 09 Sep 2026

Ban on Sale of Loose Edible Oil

Relief for Traders in Maharashtra: Deferred by One Year. Big News for Traders and Consumers

By Cult Current Desk 02 Sep 2026

Smiles Light Up Candidates' Faces

The wait is over for lakhs of students: NTA declares UGC-NET June exam results

By Cult Current Desk 02 Sep 2026

Road To 2027 World Cup

BCCI, Gambhir plan big reset after overseas flop

By Cult Current Desk 02 Sep 2026

Economy

The Skill We Disrespect

By Cult Current Desk 11 Sep 2026

Economy

The German Brake

Why Volkswagen and JLR Are Cutting Jobs They Once Created? Volkswag...

11 Sep 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Economy

Moksha With Mini-Bar

How Faith Became India’s Hottest Luxury Product- Ranjana and Vitth...

11 Sep 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Economy

Sluggishness in the Stock Market

The Shadow of Global Geopolitics and the IT Sector Crisis- The India...

10 Sep 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Economy

Gold, Silver Crash

Why yellow metal turned red before festival season?

02 Sep 2026 • Cult Current Desk

VIDEO

Science

AI in the Classroom, Teacher in the Way?

Why Banning Generative AI For Kids Is The Wrong Lesson? New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s one-year moratorium on generative AI for public school students till Class 8 has reopened a global debate India is just entering. Should we ban GenAI among younger students? In this Parley, Lavina Jaiswani and Deepa Jacob argue it out — and both say no, but for nuanced reasons.

By Cult Current Desk 11 Sep 2026