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A roadmap to divine union and liberation
August 19, 2024, 8:11 AM IST
By Swami Bhaktivenkateshwara Among the 12 Hindu poet-saints of South India known as Alvars, there was only one female named Andal. She lived around the seventh century in Srivilliputhur, 80km from Madurai. Along with her…
August 19, 2024, 8:11 AM IST
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Why some horrors affect us all
August 19, 2024, 8:06 AM IST
Cases like the RG Kar and Nirbhaya rape-murders feel like a faultline in civilisation itself. The feeling of being trapped spreads among countless women. Taking to the streets is survival mode The word rape comes…
August 19, 2024, 8:06 AM IST
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Counting castes is all politics, zero policy
August 19, 2024, 8:01 AM IST
There’s value in a caste census. But too much politics is driving the demand for it. It’s Congress’s tool to scatter BJP’s attempts at Hindu vote consolidation One of BJP’s major political achievements has been…
August 19, 2024, 8:01 AM IST
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Independence Day 2424
August 19, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
On what Forster got wrong, and also his printer On the last page of an English novel published in 1924, an India-friendly British character nevertheless mocks India’s aspirations to achieve freedom: “India a nation!” The…
August 19, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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It’s safe to say…
August 19, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
…That every case of assaulted woman is a blow against women’s workforce participation There is no possible road to India’s prosperity, which doesn’t run through it becoming a gender fair society. Everyone doesn’t need to…
August 19, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Think laterally
August 19, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Reservations shouldn’t be applicable when recruiting outside talent for short stints in govt Opposition parties have charged that GOI’s advertisement for 45 lateral entry posts in the bureaucracy is unmindful of reservation provisions. Jobs advertised…
August 19, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Kolkata rape: Rage is justified, revenge is not
August 18, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
We are still reeling from the rape and murder of a female doctor in RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata. It’s a case that has captured the rage of the nation, but unfortunately there are many…
August 18, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Wisdom shines through inner silence of the mind
August 17, 2024, 7:24 AM IST
Describing his first spiritual experience Sri Aurobindo said silence was his ‘first positive spiritual experience’ which made the rest of his sadhana possible. He upheld that ‘in silence is wisdom’. Wisdom – true knowledge is…
August 17, 2024, 7:24 AM IST
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Over to J&K’s people
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Poll wheels have started turning for a most crucial assembly poll The first round of assembly polls after the LS elections will be held in a single phase for Haryana’s 90-seat assembly and over three…
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Another Threat
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
GOI should be proactive in its response to Mpox WHO’s move to declare Mpox as a global health emergency should be taken seriously by GOI. Though this is the second time since 2022 that WHO…
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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3 years on, Taliban’s still a pariah, but…
August 16, 2024, 7:39 AM IST
The establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan three years ago following the ignominious withdrawal of US forces and the fall of the Ashraf Ghani govt has reversed many of the achievements of the past…
August 16, 2024, 7:39 AM IST
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Whose didi are you, they’re asking
August 16, 2024, 7:28 AM IST
Tens of thousands of women have poured out into the streets across Bengal in a spontaneous initiative to not just reclaim the night. They are signalling to Mamata Banerjee that enough is enough. And smart…
August 16, 2024, 7:28 AM IST
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Visiting Shiv’s abode is a profound experience
August 16, 2024, 7:23 AM IST
Vijay Hashia The Amarnath Cave nestled in the Indian Himalayas is a site of immense spiritual significance. The journey to this sacred cave, where a naturally occurring ice lingam forms every year, is both physically…
August 16, 2024, 7:23 AM IST
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Cop out in Kolkata
August 16, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
City police’s investigative conduct is a reflection of a much larger malaise that afflicts Bengal Whatever CBI’s investigation into the rape-murder of a junior doctor in a Kolkata govt hospital reveals, the conduct of Kolkata…
August 16, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Taxing judgment
August 16, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
SC call to make minerals tax retrospective brings back ghosts of Vodafone, Cairn Supreme Court shouldn’t have given retrospective effect to its recent judgment that granted states the right to levy tax on mineral rights….
August 16, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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The ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ of life
August 15, 2024, 7:27 AM IST
Written by Jug Suraiya Has India’s education system become a contradiction in terms, in that it does not educate and is no longer a system, an orderly arrangement of ideas and functions formulated to achieve…
August 15, 2024, 7:27 AM IST
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‘Hasina had to go…Yunus govt formed unconstitutionally…Can’t have secularism and state religion…Hindus can’t all come to India’
August 15, 2024, 7:21 AM IST
Turmoil in Bangladesh has seen its minorities come under attack, raising global concern. The head of interim government, Muhammad Yunus, has assured Bangladeshi Hindus equal protection. Surendra Kumar Sinha, former chief justice of Bangladesh and…
August 15, 2024, 7:21 AM IST
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Our sporting HerStory
August 15, 2024, 7:08 AM IST
One of India’s finest sportspersons writes about Indian women’s accomplishments at the Olympics, and about what it will take to give more women a shot at a podium finish. For Indians, the Paris Olympics began…
August 15, 2024, 7:08 AM IST
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Supremely clear
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Two SC orders within a week should settle once and for all that bail, not jail, is the norm Supreme Court’s latest order granting bail, in a case under anti-terror law UAPA, adds to its…
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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India & Indiaspora
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Success of diaspora in US and other countries is reason for Centre to make emigration a standalone ministry Regardless of which way US presidential elections go, there will be an Indian-origin woman in the citadel…
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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