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When ‘Shakespeare’ speaks on Indian politics

Rahul Gandhi has been missing from the anti-CAA protests, I posed. “Ambition should be made of sterner stuff,” he replied.

05 Mar 2020 1:58 AM

People today are trying to broaden their minds, which may make one socially successful, not truly successful. If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is, without distortions.

Mystic Mantra: What decides our success?

It is quite disturbing for me that someone's sickness is a lucrative business, because you would not want everyone to become healthy.

04 Mar 2020 2:40 AM

Delhi riot, Halle synagogue attack prove bigotry is a handy state asset

A sting operation comes to mind. It was conducted by an intrepid journalist on one of the leading mob heads in Gujarat.

04 Mar 2020 2:33 AM

PMK grasps cinema’s power, belatedly

The 2014 statement was on Ramadoss’s pet peeve: Fake register marriages used to extort money from parents of innocent girls of his caste.

04 Mar 2020 2:30 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

Communists might back Bernie, but he’s not one

Mr Sanders, the longest serving Independent senator, joined the Democratic Party last year only.

03 Mar 2020 2:58 AM

The enlightened mystic Osho concludes: Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest. To avoid this search, you easily become gullible, you easily become victims of anybody who is ready to exploit you.

Mystic Mantra: What is the way beyond violence?

There are billions of religious people all over the earth who believe in their particular religions, and they love and cling to their beliefs.

02 Mar 2020 3:14 AM

The inception of Pakistan’s e-surveillance programme can be traced back to the evolution of Nadra into a national registry and centralised database of all citizens. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pakistan: Without data protection & privacy laws, Internet can be misused

The citizen “protection” rules are the most recent in a long chain of events that illustrate how the state is expanding its surveillance apparatus.

02 Mar 2020 3:11 AM

British PM to get married, in office

Meanwhile, this will be the first wedding in over 200 years of a sitting Prime Minister. Bring out the buntings!

02 Mar 2020 3:09 AM

Dilli Ka Babu: Privileged connections

But Diwakar Nath Misra is no run-of-the-mill joint secretary.

01 Mar 2020 4:31 AM

The RSS is not amused with Modi’s cult of personality

The RSS was not amused to see Modi build a cult of personality from the very outset. But it shrewdly assessed both cost and benefit.

01 Mar 2020 4:27 AM

The Centre for the Monitoring of the Indian Economy says that corporate sales declined by 1.2 per cent in the October-December 2019-20 quarter (having declined by 2.8 per cent before that) and profits before tax shrunk by 10 per cent (compared to a shrinkage of 60 per cent in the previous quarter).

A bad time for India, but with bad leadership

Outside of the formal sector, data has been difficult to collect credibly in India.

01 Mar 2020 4:24 AM

A book value in a sense represents a historical cost, or the purchase cost adjusted for depreciation while market value is the true value of the enterprise that can be realised in the open market.

The govt’s grand garage sale of Air India

The book value of an enterprise can be markedly different from its market value.

01 Mar 2020 4:21 AM

PTI: Too young a dream to have lost all its romance already

The possibilities of politics in Punjab under Sardar Buzdar, tasked with granting or refusing relief to Mian Nawaz Sharif, are immense.

29 Feb 2020 7:17 AM

Most people cannot digest death. If you are aware of your mortal nature, everything is put into its proper perspective.

Mystic Mantra: What happens to us after death?

We have heard gossip about heaven and hell, but there is no confirmed information.

29 Feb 2020 7:14 AM

When British VIPs get away with sexual abuse

Weinstein, with a very successful film company behind him, sported one magnetic field of power.

29 Feb 2020 7:11 AM

The Sikh Guru also writes: “Ravidas, the leather worker, praised the Lord, and sang the kirtan of His praises each and every instant. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Mystic Mantra: Bhagat Ravidas - Devotion regardless of caste

Bhagat Ravidas, an ardent devotee of the God, was a Bhakti saint whose hymns are included in the Guru Granth Sahib.

28 Feb 2020 2:21 AM

The aid that the World Bank was giving to some of the world’s poorest countries appeared to be going directly into offshore accounts.

World Bank study points to where most foreign aid for the poorest goes

All these caveats notwithstanding, the conclusion of the paper has turned out to be controversial and damning.

28 Feb 2020 2:09 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Trump: Has Modi embraced a two-term President?

So far, the Democratic race has similarities with the primaries, which led to a Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump contest in 2016.

28 Feb 2020 2:05 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

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