Know who you are
By SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI Who am I? The gross body that is composed of the seven humours, I am not; the five cognitive sense organs of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell, which apprehend their...
View ArticleOn digital giants
By Martin Reeves The US West Coast and the east coast of China are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalisation. The leading...
View ArticleAligarh Muslim University is being accused of fostering ‘anti-nationalism’...
By Mohammad Sajjad That certain universities are constantly in the crosshairs of cohorts of the incumbent regime is increasingly becoming the ‘new normal’. The Hindutva brand of nationalism has...
View ArticleOut of Africa, some of India’s plans
By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury Colonial movements in Africa are a matter of the past and so are ideological battles. A new and aspirational continent is emerging willing to take its place in the sun riding...
View ArticleVikings’ View of Cosmos
By Narayani Ganesh Viking oral tradition describes what prevailed before chaos and creation. The great abyss, the Ginnungagap, was without form and void. On either side of the abyss lay Muspellheim,...
View ArticleTrade carefully, on uneven ground
By VK Saraswat, Prachi Priya & Aniruddha Ghosh Trade theory has consistently been a strong proponent of free trade of goods, services, capital and labour. However, a growing wave of protectionism...
View ArticleAs the universe whooshes by
By Debkumar Mitra Recently, cosmologists have been coming up with hypotheses about the structure of the universe, which many had earlier thought to have been settled. The ‘standard model’ of cosmology...
View ArticleHealthy, Wealthy & Wise
By Sunil K Alagh Along with the minimum support price for farmers, this year’s Budget’s most critical announcement was the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS). Upholding the spirit of the...
View ArticleJo Jeeta Woh Karnataka
By Pranab Dhal Samanta As much as we build scenarios around the Karnataka elections and their implication for national politics, the truth is that the stakes are the highest for three regional leaders...
View ArticleManaging Sensibly
By DAN CABLE When you’re a leader — no matter how long you’ve been in your role or how hard the journey was to get there — you are merely overhead unless you’re bringing out the...
View ArticleWhen it is time to go
By JASJIT MANSINGH Early one morning, a little bird was sitting on the branch of a tree, singing sweetly its song. Suddenly, it fell silent. It had seen Yama, the Lord of Death, go past and...
View ArticleResponsible Parenting
By MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN According to a Hadith, which deals with parenting of children, the Prophet said, “There is no better and superior gift that a father can give to his children than cultivation...
View ArticleAll the shops down the road
By Rajat Verma Rising protectionism and global trade tensions are making Indian export companies, heavily inclined towards traditional western markets, watch developments with some concern. According...
View ArticleJustice K M Joseph Hazir Ho!
By Rajeev Dhavan So, Congress finally withdrew the Supreme Court petition challenging Rajya Sabha Chairman Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu’s rejection of an impeachment motion against Chief Justice...
View ArticleWell-Strung Purse Strings
By Rajiv Kumar & Chinmaya Goyal If one judges a government’s performance by what it does with public finances, the Narendra Modi government deserves high marks. The quality of India’s public...
View ArticleView: How the Modi government is keeping us in dark by it ‘100%...
By Jyotiraditya M Scindia Last Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared April 28, 2018, an “historic day in the development journey of India”. He tweeted, his government had “fulfilled a...
View ArticleIt’s good to be content
By Brahma Kumaris Contentment is like an underground river whose course just cannot be daunted. On the surface, people are stamping, pushing, pulling; the ground is cracking or left derelict, but...
View ArticleProliferating a Trumpian plan
By William H Avery President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) involving the Iranian nuclear agreement, and that it’s...
View ArticleThe Fifth Major
Golf elites treat The Players championship, starting today, on a par with the four majors. Lahiri lone Indian in the field
View ArticleWhy Silence is Golden
Words are like bullets; they could hit hard. They can cause pain and hurt to the listener that may be irreversible. Words of love and compassion soothe and comfort a person. Psychologists’ research...
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