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Detachment and letting go is an art best learnt as early in life as possible. This week Ive lost a family member and I found my detachment to him a great asset to how I dealt with the entire situation.

Feelings of detachment

When we are connected with someone, they become a part of our life and us a part of their life that is connection.

1 Aug 2019 12:13 AM IST

Shashi Tharoor has had his hands full recently fighting battles on various fronts. On August 31, the Delhi police asked a city court to frame charges of abetment to suicide against him in the case related to death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014. (Photo: ANI)

'It is an insult to Lord Ram that people are killed in his name':...

He hit out at those who indulge in those activities and asserted that he too was a Hindu himself but 'not of this kind'.

22 Sept 2019 3:21 PM IST

The longer the present uncertainty remains the more will our workers and voters around the country be demoralized, Karan Singh said. (Photo: File | PTI)

Beating boy to death, asking to chant religious slogans insult to...

Two months ago, Tabrez was assaulted by a mob on the suspicion of committing a theft in Kharsawan district of Jharkhand.

13 Sept 2019 10:07 AM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

When a Parsi is Hindu' but a Muslim isn't

One of these boxes asked for the religion of the dead person. The form, or perhaps it was the operative, offered her two...

10 Feb 2020 1:22 AM IST

The current regime has a brute majority in the Lok Sabha and a managed one in the Rajya Sabha. (Twitter)

Pavan K. Varma | A 10-point 'toolkit' for an authoritarian democracy

Each step in this journey that goes unchallenged prepares the ground for the next step, further reinforcing the trend

31 Oct 2021 1:48 AM IST

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid. (Photo: PTI)

Complaints filed against Salman Khurshid for allegedly defaming...

The complaint alleges that in his new book Salman Khurshid has compared Hindutva to radical terrorist groups like ISIS...

11 Nov 2021 1:24 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Resist new usurpers of Hindu's eternal legacy

Hindus have been used to being Hindus in a self-assured way without being told that there is a higher 'authority' that...

24 Jan 2021 7:13 AM IST

Veer Savarkar. (Photo: Twitter/@VPSecretariat)

Pavan K. Varma | Do not erase legacy of Savarkar, the reformer

Both his critics and his supporters exclusively focus, for their own vested interests, only on his initial avowal of...

30 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

In India too, an intense fight is on between the Hindu right, partially represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Hindu liberals. (Representational image: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's culture wars: A clash of ignorant...

There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh state home minister Narottam Mishra. (ANI)

Pavan K Varma | Hindus tolerant, inclusive: Why rush to take offence?

Hinduism, which has survived for millennia because of its conquering eclecticism, will survive people like Mishraji too

25 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | North vs South: For Muslims, the experience is wholly...

In the North, manufactured daily incidents keep communalism on a continuous simmer and folks huddle and wonder what the...

20 July 2022 7:15 AM IST

Congress president Rahul Gandhi with party leaders Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia offering prayers at Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain.

Modi and Rahul lock horns over Hinduism

This is a venture to mobilise the mass of Hindu voters in the name of religion in order to further the BJP's electoral...

4 Dec 2018 1:36 AM IST