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Moin Qazi is a well-known banker, author and Islamic researcher. He can be reached at moinqazi123@gmail.com

The greatest impact of overemphasis on organised religion has been felt by spiritualism which is actually the soul of religion. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The soul of spiritualism

The scriptures have not to be just ritualized; they have to be applied to our everyday lives.

13 March 2018 12:33 AM IST

A group of brick factory workers carry bricks on their heads ahead of International Womens Day in Karad, Maharashtra. (Photo: PTI)

When women succeed, we all do too

The new female role models that the law created had a dramatic impact on families and younger women.

8 March 2018 4:07 AM IST

By humbling before God five times each day, supplicating to God in private moments, and remembering God through the repeated phrases of dhikr, they seek to mould their minds and thoughts into a way pleasing to God.

Mystic Mantra: The way to mindfulness

Dhikr is a powerful means of building self-control and striking a balance between the spiritual and the mundane.

3 March 2018 2:05 AM IST

Construction of a biogas digester.

When the poor are made guinea pigs

Jatropha cultivation was the new bandwagon wherein the Cinderella plant was promised to deliver gold out of barren...

1 March 2018 12:49 AM IST

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Mystic Mantra: The power of altruism

Mankind's faith in God and human beings is revealed in small acts of kindness, brotherhood or sisterhood in our...

17 Feb 2018 3:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Photo: PTI)

It's time for us to move beyond Davos

India's once-ample resources have been frittered away on the grandiose schemes which failed to pay the expected...

16 Feb 2018 4:01 AM IST

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The buzzword bingo

A strong economy isn't enough, so the new marker for economic success is inclusive growth.

31 Jan 2018 12:12 AM IST

God always wants us to triumph over our karmic hurdles because only then will we fulfill the purpose of life, which is to grow into better human beings.

Mystic Mantra: The mystics in white

According to Sufi teachings, the path to experiencing the divine presence starts within.

30 Jan 2018 4:06 AM IST

More Indian children are in school today than ever before, but the quality of public schools has sunk to abysmally low levels, as government schools have become the reserve of children at the very bottom of Indias social ladder.

India's education needs reforms

The public school system expanded massively in the 1990s and the first decade of this century.

24 Jan 2018 12:09 AM IST

With a breakdown of joint family support in old age rising life expectancy, negligible lifetime savings, pension exclusion and the elderly face the grim prospect of living in poverty after they are too old to work.

Micropension: Providing financial security for the elderly poor

Individualistic attitudes and rising aspirations with the accompanying changes in lifestyles are widening the generation...

17 Jan 2018 1:57 AM IST

As Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee explains, the Sufi comes into this world to love and serve the divine and this destiny is stamped within the heart in fire.

Mystic Mantra: Our bond with divine grace

No previous society has offered seekers so many different ways to chase after Nirvana, so many different paths to...

16 Jan 2018 1:31 AM IST

Many children are born to anaemic and malnourished teenage mothers. Indeed, 33.6 per cent of Indian women are chronically undernourished and 55 per cent are anaemic.

Malnutrition ravages India's children

Most child deaths in India occur from treatable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and complications at birth.

3 Jan 2018 1:13 AM IST