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Cabbages & Kings: Revisiting India's World War I role

Neither Britain nor India has come to any conclusions about the colonial relationship.

17 Nov 2018 7:56 AM IST

An elderly Sikh couple was having a really challenging time filling in forms that ask detailed questions about the content of your bags. (Photo: Representational Image/AP)

Litfest & more: Musings from an Aussie outpost

The Australian economy being as robust as it is, has led to a work ethic that is admirable.

17 Nov 2018 7:52 AM IST

Mindfulness meditation may reduce anxiety with breast biopsy. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: The will to change

Over time, we develop undue attachments, aversions, love and hatred towards people and their actions.

16 Nov 2018 7:56 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: File)

Changing place names: Fashioning potent weapons of mass distraction

Unable to construct the Ram Mandir at the disputed site in Ayodhya, the ruling BJP finds itself in a quandary.

16 Nov 2018 7:45 AM IST

Rafale aircraft

False info, false testimony in Rafale dogfight

We have a tradition in India, actually a discipline, that officers in uniform don't take part even in political...

16 Nov 2018 7:35 AM IST

Journalist-turned-childrens author Shabnam Minwallas What Maya Saw (Harper Collins, 2017) is one among the three shortlisted under the Young Adult Books category. (Representional Image)

Book hand-sellers are as rare as ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas'

Lynne bemoaned that hand-sellers were as rare nowadays as the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas .

16 Nov 2018 2:25 AM IST

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa

High-stakes game in Colombo to intensify

At one point, Mr Rajapaksa seemed to be making some progress in acquiring parliamentary support.

15 Nov 2018 7:57 AM IST

A growing consensus among philosophers and cognitive scientists defines wise judgement to include the ability to recognise the limits of ones knowledge. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Pranaam, philosophers!

UNESCO decided in 2002 that every third Thursday in November be celebrated as World Philosophy Day .

15 Nov 2018 7:52 AM IST

Women workers at a tea plantation.

Is the space for working women in India shrinking?

Census 2011 has put the female workforce participation rate as low as 25.5 per cent, as against 53.26 per cent for...

15 Nov 2018 7:12 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at the All India Congress Committee meeting in what was then Bombay in 1946.

The greatest Indian after the Mahatma? Why Gandhi chose Nehru to lead...

Nehru was recommended by only three provincial committees for Congress president, but the Mahatma decided in his...

15 Nov 2018 7:05 AM IST

The predominant tactic copied and deployed by the Tamil Tigers was through the suicide vests that had killed Indias former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. (Representational image)

Lone wolf', sniper hits may see a spurt in J&K

The epicentre and levers of angst will more and more emanate from within the Valley, as opposed to across the border.

14 Nov 2018 8:13 AM IST

Devotion to Prophets is one of the basic creeds of Islamic faith. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Love in the truest sense

In fact, showing veneration to the Prophet's holiness is reckoned as the foundation of Islamic mysticism (tasawwuf).

14 Nov 2018 8:09 AM IST