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Moin Qazi

A child prodigy who must successfully move into adulthood

“Prodigy” derives from the Latin “prodigium”, a monster that violates the natural order.

03 Mar 2020 7:14 AM

Empathy is the ability to understand what others think and feel, and to respond to their thoughts and feelings with appropriate emotions. Individuals who feel empathy experience greater happiness and make friends more easily.

Mystic Mantra: Why we need an empathy revolution

The empathy that society needs is not a form that comes from superiority, but one that is born from a profound humility.

03 Mar 2020 3:02 AM

True fellowship lies in service. Service is an offspring of love and compassion. The marvellous thing about compassionate fellowship is that once a distressed person feels that somebody cares about him, he is often able to begin caring more about others. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Love liberates love and it pays to sacrifice

The people in hell were shrouded in clouds of selfishness and couldn’t think of helping each other, the way people in heaven were doing.

27 Feb 2020 1:54 AM

Prema Gopalan: A silent crusader in rural India

Today, several thousand women among those severely affected by the tragedy are recognised as transformational leaders.

18 Feb 2020 1:50 AM

Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: There is human growth beyond plain nature

We are being constantly reminded that the rhythm of our cultural cosmos is fast growing erratic.

12 Feb 2020 4:53 AM

The insurance cover was last increased to Rs 1 lakh in 1993 from Rs 30,000 earlier and has remained unchanged for the last 26 years.

We need an overhaul of the customer protection regime

Financial education and awareness is the most powerful antidote against risky investment traps.

11 Feb 2020 2:17 AM

These two categories are now heading the list, having outnumbered the suicide figures of those working in the farming sector. Unemployed persons (12,936) were slightly behind those self-employed (13,149) who took their own lives, with the number of farmers taking lives being 10,349. It is now clear that, even while we need to address agrarian distress on a war footing, the challenges posed by unemployment and underemployment have become equally grim.

Creating meaningful livelihood for all the greatest challenge

India has witnessed a relatively high aggregate economic growth, but also abounds in persistent and endemic deprivation and deep social failures.

06 Feb 2020 2:28 AM

A man sleeps at a night shelter for poor and homeless people, in New Delhi, in the cold morning hours. (Photo: AFP)

‘Time to care’ about economic inequality in India

The creamy layer of the world population has collectively generated an enormous amount of wealth in the past 20 years.

28 Jan 2020 2:57 AM

The philosophical outlook and beliefs underpin attitudes in corporations. It is honing intuitive instincts; gut feeling, as personal radar that is being built up over the years. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Religion is the sine qua non of human success

Despite its detractors, religion remains firmly embedded in our universal consciousness.

28 Jan 2020 2:38 AM

There are still so many wonderful shy people with us; but their frail sense of self-worth has been eroded. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: A quiet cheer for silence

Seekers have regularly practised the vow of silence for mastering their speech.

08 Jan 2020 2:28 AM

Islam and God-Centricity: A Theological Basis for Human Liberation By Shaykh Arif & Abdul Hussain Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham pp.136, Rs 599

Towards human liberation through spirituality

An essential feature of Islamic philosophy is the spirit of sincere inquiry and continual learning.

03 Jan 2020 2:21 AM

God alone must be the sole and ultimate focus of all prayer. (Photo: AP)

Mystic Mantra: The healing power of prayer

Prayer is not only an entreaty to God, but a dynamic dialogue.

02 Jan 2020 1:50 AM

Gender remains a critically important but largely ignored lens to view development issues across the world. Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. (Photo: Representational/Pexels)

Gender gap: Build core competencies of women

There is a need to build the core social, economic and political competencies of women to empower them to exercise their agency.

24 Dec 2019 2:37 AM

Mystic Mantra: Reclaiming our true nature

One of them was courageous enough to enquire from the master the reason for this gesture.

18 Dec 2019 2:50 AM

Buddha believed that knowing that all things are impermanent subdues the proud and gives hope to the wretched, encouraging them both to make spiritual progress. (Photo: AP)

Mystic Mantra: The right measure of life: Abide by Buddha’s three great truths

Like Buddha, the true teachers have always emphasised the need for retaining the equilibrium between the material and spiritual scales of life.

04 Dec 2019 3:06 AM

The aim of spirituality is to make man fully conscious of his true innocence. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The strength of a remorseful heart

The Creator has placed a unique volitional quality in man’s psyche — and that is what is called “repentance”.

20 Nov 2019 2:40 AM

Don’t spend your time double tapping a picture of friends laughing together when you could be laughing with someone in real life.

Mystic Mantra: Savour life, relish the moments

We’re all missing out on a life that is unfolding in front of us, one that is so wonderful and yet won’t be there later on.

06 Nov 2019 5:56 AM

Life is full of misery and we feel so lonely and alienated because no one is loyal to the other.

Mystic Mantra: Man, and man alone wants to sit as juror

Ptolemaic astronomers made the earth the centre around which all the heavenly bodies revolved.

23 Oct 2019 2:08 AM

Mystic Mantra - Quran: The common denominator of Muslims

The Quran, literally "the recitation", also transliterated as Qur'an, Koran, or Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text or scripture of Islam.

16 Oct 2019 1:33 AM

Muslims are required to perform wudu in preparation for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Quran.

Mystic Mantra: Wudu in Islam cleanses mind, body & soul

Muslims have a contractual relationship to God that is manifest through the body.

04 Oct 2019 12:23 AM

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