Golden age of growth
The flood of inventions that followed the Civil War utterly transformed life, transferring human attention and energy from the mundane to soaring skyscrapers and airplanes. What makes the period...
View ArticleFaith and wisdom
All major religions offer a deep, underlying fundamental unity amid apparent diversity and prescribe specific ways of purposeful living for peaceful coexistence, self-development and ultimate...
View ArticleEvolutionary Revolution
By SUMIT PAUL One of the profoundest observations of Gautama Buddha is, “Man is more compassionate than he thinks he is.” What a soul-gladdening and heart-warming observation! Humans are basically...
View ArticleWhat Price, Agri-Price Dip?
By Abheek Barua & Tushar Arora Inflation is a strange thing. Get too much of it and alarm bells start ringing. Get too little, and pesky economists start asking awkward questions. Headline consumer...
View ArticleHow can one explain the current GDP debate?
By: Laveesh Bhandari How can one explain the current GDP debate? There were some figures that seemed right in the past. And now we have another set of figures put together using better methods. So,...
View ArticleOf Success and Failure
By SWAMI SUKHABODHANANDA Be open to the miracle of life. Life is full of surprises and each surprise is a gift from the unknown. However, we can’t relish an unexpected gift as a surprise because we...
View ArticleLapis Lazuli Project to create vibrant transit route for Afghanistan
The trans-regional corridor will encompass mainly railways and highways, which will connect the city of Torghundi in the Afghan province of Herat with the port of Turkmenbashi on the shore of the...
View ArticleVijay Mallya for RBI Governor!
By: Anuvab Pal I have a theory. This column is called ‘Funny Business’. So I am hoping no one actually goes and does this, given the current state of the nation. But it is worth a...
View ArticleVery much at home abroad
Signals from Washington these days suggest that the current administration views immigrants as a burden to the country… One commentator recommends— maybe not entirely facetiously—that it might be time...
View ArticleEvery Day is a Celebration
By SANT RAJINDER SINGH Some of what happens to us each day is God’s will. We also have free will to choose, and we can make choices that are going to be beneficial to us and...
View ArticleCapital Issues
By MARTIN WOLF The huge deficits that the US willingly incurred gave the world breathing space. But that could not last forever. Adjustment in the global balance of payments is now taking place. If it...
View ArticleLet many competitions bloom
By Hardayal Singh William A Niskanen, a key aide to former US president Ronald Reagan and a public choice theorist, once asked an important question: given that bureaucracies are hierarchies that...
View ArticleKeep the cash machine well-oiled
By Himanshu Pujara Today, the country is staring at a very real possibility of 50% of automated teller machines (ATMs), numbering more than one lakh, shutting down by March 2019. Naturally, the big...
View ArticleLifting the smog from pollution
By Vaishali N Sinha It’s mid-December, and still, irrespective of discussions, debates and suggestions, the overall air quality index (AQI) of Delhi, as recorded by Central Pollution Control Board...
View ArticleA new beginning for Rajasthan
There will be a new beginning when Ashok Gahlot and Sachin Pilot take oath in the historic Albert Hall. This will be a resounding message for all those who believed that people are still crazy about...
View ArticleSo, organic food’s bad?
By Debkumar Mitra Nature, it turns out, gives with one hand, takes with the other. That seems to be the case with organic food-—while food grown without the use of fertilisers is good for health,...
View ArticleKnowledge overload
By JASON FARMAN Starting in the late 1890s, several cities in the United States installed these tubes underground that would shoot up to 20,000 letters in a minute between post office stations. It ran...
View ArticleProtected by grace
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev When Draupadi was being disrobed in public, Krishna was not present. He was not even aware of Draupadi’s predicament. So how was she saved? Krishna faced a crisis in Dwarka....
View ArticleMind is a monkey
By: Swami Muktananda People want both God and wealth. They want their businesses to be successful, their children to study well, their health to remain perfect, and their households and cars to run...
View ArticleWinnning strategy
By: Susan Peppercorn People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error.… Behind many fears is worry...
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