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The fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)

Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

22 July 2018 1:15 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

The last lap of Pakistan elections

Imran Khan's meetings have been well attended, generally, bar maybe one or two occasions where the crowd was rather...

22 July 2018 1:11 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha on no-confidence motion during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

No-trust motion exposed disarray in Oppn

Perhaps the real intent then was for the Opposition to launch its campaign for 2019 through this effort.

22 July 2018 1:09 AM IST

Students paint over Rudyard Kiplings poem If in protest at writers racism. (Photo: Pixabay)

Cabbages & Kings: Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

Recent decoration of the building entailed inscribing Rudyard Kipling's poem, If, on one of the large round internal...

21 July 2018 7:57 AM IST

Sufism. Representational image

Mystic Mantra: Ibrahim From king to ascetic

The story that led to the mystic's change of heart is a famous one.

21 July 2018 7:37 AM IST

US President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: File)

After shaking the G-7 and Nato summits, has Trump finally surrendered...

Nato was originally created to combat the spread of Communism and the influence of the Soviet empire.

20 July 2018 10:20 AM IST

Multiculturalism has been the flavour of the season at the World Cup in Russia, with migrants providing the decisive punch to all European teams which reached the top. (Photo: Pixabay) (Representational image)

Wide Angle: Multiculturalism & Europe Don't forget history

Without migrants from Francophone Africa, there would be no French team which lifted the Cup after 20 long years.

20 July 2018 8:25 AM IST

The decision to rebuild the shrine came forth last year from people of both countries when Rameswaram fishermen visit the islet for the annual festival at St. Antonys church.

India's Church: Mired in controversies

The latest in this series is the complaint filed by a senior nun a few days ago the Bishop of Jalandhar raped her 13...

20 July 2018 8:05 AM IST

People share sweet love stories on Twitter. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Pierced by the arrow of love

The Punjabi Sufi mystic of the Indian subcontinent Bulleh Shah lived from 1680 to 1757 in what is now Pakistan.

20 July 2018 7:54 AM IST

Domestic investors were reluctant to expand their portfolios ahead of the RBIs monetary policy review, brokers said.

RBI must set a new path for India's troubled banks

Forty-nine years after Indira Gandhi nationalised the banks, life for a banker, more so in public sector banks, appears...

19 July 2018 7:55 AM IST

Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

Pak Punjab is the real battleground: It can make or break Imran's...

Imran Khan thought he was there in 2013, but it was not to be. He claimed that the elections were stolen.

19 July 2018 7:49 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: Knowledge is the key to happiness

Most of the time we run out of fear in an perceived painful situation even though the real situation would not have been...

19 July 2018 7:44 AM IST