Pranab Mukherjee at the RSS HQ: That’s a Presidential-style pardon
By Mohammad Sajjad Ever since Pranab Mukherjee accepted the invitation to address RSS volunteers at the organisation’s valedictory function on June 7, various views have been aired. His daughter, a...
View ArticleDiscretionary powers used by public functionaries will define how India is...
By Hardayal Singh How Karnataka governor Vajubhai Bala exercised his discretion in the aftermath of the assembly elections has raised important questions of governance that go much beyond government...
View ArticleEgo and humility
By Parmarthi Raina Ego gives us our identity: “I am an Indian. I am a businessman. I live in Delhi.” From ego stems pride and vanity: “I am learned in the shastras and so I...
View ArticleOn Work Cultures
By DANIEL COYLE We’ve all been a part of groups that add up to more, where you feel that connection, that belonging, and that group is able to accomplish great things. Having a strong culture is...
View ArticleAwaken Aspiration
By SWAMI KRIYANANDA It was not until rocket engines were built with a strong enough thrust to escape the Earth’s gravity that man actually landed on the moon. In the same manner, those of us who...
View ArticleAll Those Nifty Shades of Grey
Trump is perceived as unpredictable: our expectations of what an ideologically Left or Right leader would do are so polarised and rigid, that any deviation from them that ventures into a grey area...
View ArticleMake Life Meaningful
Every artist puts his signature in a corner of his painting, his own creation. God who has created the entire universe has not put His name to it. Hence the mystery surrounding Him.
View ArticleTrump-Kim meet: A story of two nuclear powers
By Sreeram Chaulia The summit meeting in Singapore between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump is a first step in what will be a drawn-out process of negotiations to end...
View ArticleCracking the enterprise valuation code in times of growing digitisation
By Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, Deputy Managing Director (Digital Banking), SBI Valuing an enterprise is a tricky task. Trickier is to arrive at a possible market valuation at a future point in time....
View ArticleHow to bring peace in Kashmir?
By Vinay Kaura It is always difficult to assess the strength of an ongoing insurgency since due to its sheer nature fighting insurgency is altogether different from fighting a conventional battle....
View ArticleOur cosmic connections
By Pranav Khullar For aeons, the sky — particularly the night sky — has fascinated and intrigued humankind. Carl Sagan writes of how “…the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will...
View ArticleIndia’s fiscal is on a precarious oily slope
Normally 65% of the borrowing is completed in the first half. This was done to ensure that the government stays out of the way when corporate credit demand picks up in the “busy season.”
View ArticleChop-Chop Chopra
By Rajyasree Sen The unthinkable has happened. An actor starred in a (fictional) TV show as a(fictional) character who defuses a (fictional) terror plot. The only catch: the actor was Bollywood star...
View ArticleSingapore ambience
By Hermann Hesse In the morning, I had chased butterflies on the byways, overgrown with grass and overhung with foliage, that run among the European gardens. In the white heat of noon, I returned to...
View ArticleTrue worth of Income
By Anant G Nadkarni Every action has a reaction however good or bad, right or wrong, visible or invisible. This is a law of Nature. Depending on the motivation and kind of action, the result...
View ArticleThe Importance of Getting Real
By Sandip Roy That’s why they call me pit bull ’cause I’m the man of the land when they see me They say oooooh Who let the dogs out? —‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’, Baha...
View ArticleMatchless Winners
NOVY KAPADIA In 1911, Kolkata’s oldest Indian football club, Mohun Bagan, were invited to play in the prestigious IFA Shield. Coached by the disciplinarian Sailen Basu, the barefooted players had a...
View ArticleGet out of your BMW
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev What is Samyama and how does it help us in life? Samyama is clarity. When I say clarity, I’m not talking about mental clarity. I know people have been talking about...
View ArticleMore than just a sporting chance
By Desh Gaurav Sekhri The tipping point for sports in India to attain sustainable levels of high participation, consistent success and imbibing sport as a culture may just be around the corner. Just...
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