| Dear Reader, Greetings from India! You're reading Meanwhile, Back Home, our daily newsletter specially curated for our overseas readers.From Bihar’s shifting alliances to a motherhood redefined, and finally, to a Hungarian novelist who makes beauty out of chaos, today’s edition travels through politics, justice, and art.
💡Spotlight The Congress is set to contest 58 of Bihar’s 243 Assembly seats — 12 fewer than in 2020 — and has finalised 25 candidates, party sources told The Indian Express. Fifteen of the 17 sitting MLAs are in the fray, while two face uncertainty amid possible swaps with ally RJD. The list includes senior leaders like Ajit Sharma, Vijendra Choudhary, and Akash Kumar, son of ex-state chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh. In 2020, Congress won 19 of 70 seats contested, lagging behind alliance partners RJD and the Left despite a close overall fight against the NDA.It is a recalibration after rebellion and loss. Now, Trading the dust of electoral battles for the decorous courtroom, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai, reflecting on last week’s shoe-throwing episode in the Supreme Court, said he was “shocked” at the time but now considers it “a forgotten chapter.” The lawyer behind the act, 71-year-old Rakesh Kishore, was released after the CJI instructed officials not to press charges. “I only heard the sound,” the CJI said.
☕ Spill the Expresso Many women are choosing motherhood at 40 and beyond. With science as an ally and stigma fading, they are carrying not just babies but a quiet revolution. Doctors call it “informed risk,” but perhaps it’s simply a lesson in timing, knowing when life says yes.
🚨 Must Read At the UN, President Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever,” saying decades of predictions were “wrong.” But the science paints a very different picture. Climate models , which are powerful computer simulations that map how air, oceans, and land interact, have actually nailed the big stuff: rising global temperatures, shrinking ice sheets, and higher seas. Sure, they are not flawless (local quirks like monsoons or flash floods can throw them off), but they’ve been remarkably consistent about one thing — the planet is warming, and humans are driving it. The data, not the drama, tells the story.
📚Book Nook And across the world, a writer of long sentences receives literature’s highest honour. Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai turns despair into devotion, apocalypse into endurance. His Nobel feels like closure — and a beginning. Because even in endings, as his novels remind us, there’s rhythm left in ruin. That’s all for now. Until next time, Aishwarya Khosla
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