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A still from Padmaavat.

Cabbages & Kings: No shades of grey in Hindi films

The plot of the film alleges that Churchill wanted to create Pakistan as a buffer in South Asia against the Soviet...

20 Jan 2018 12:35 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Assembly in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Biz-friendly' Bengal: Is Didi coming of age?

Commonsense says that all the promises made at Global Business Summits do not translate into projects under...

20 Jan 2018 12:30 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Art of conscious birth and death

Whenever there is an opportunity, a situation in which you can be reborn, you will be reborn.

19 Jan 2018 12:45 AM IST

Wide Angle: A few reflections, with eyes closed

A pity the Congress residual leadership does not see the dangers of competitive communalism.

19 Jan 2018 12:41 AM IST

Make in India. Ease of doing business. These are two catchphrases that have been tossed around a lot by this government.

Know India: Let's appreciate its diversity

Many of us do not know our own country well. School students should be encouraged to know India firsthand.

19 Jan 2018 12:37 AM IST

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, also sets an example before the rest of the world, which today experiences splits and breakups of different kinds in several areas of life. (Representational Image)

Let's pray for unity in freedom

Christians of different denominations all over the world gather together in various forms to pray.

18 Jan 2018 1:17 PM IST

Why do we focus on gender as early as pregnancy, and if its planning, what are we planning? (Photo: Pixabay)

Beyond basics, a gender gap looms

ASER 2017 shows that hearteningly, 86 per cent of youth in the surveyed 14-18 age-group are still within the formal...

18 Jan 2018 1:10 PM IST

There is no fault in Gods plan of the universe. Its alchemy is simply marvelous. All too often we recognise it in hindsight in a backward glance we remember what a spectacle it held for us and then suddenly realise that it is no more.

Mystic Mantra: Practice Yams and Niyams in totality to realise God

Make your connection so powerful that every time you undergo pain.

17 Jan 2018 12:49 AM IST

This New Year should see a reaffirmation of the political will to strengthen public education and provide good quality education overall to our children.

India's youth, our future, need support

Educated parents can provide supplementary help at home and if they can afford it send their children to private school.

17 Jan 2018 12:47 AM IST

The great Sufi Muhasibi spent his life in Baghdad where he studied from the leading teachers of the time, the Arabic word Muhasaba, meaning someone who takes account.

Mystic Mantra: Our bond with divine grace

No previous society has offered seekers so many different ways to chase after Nirvana, so many different paths to...

16 Jan 2018 1:22 AM IST

Whatever you do kids, dont become a figure of hate for the left

Nation on the mat as Modi wins

He focused on little things, and on shadows that did not exist but were cooked up and labelled as enemies by the RSS.

16 Jan 2018 1:04 AM IST

Supreme Court judges (from left) Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur address the media in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: AP)

4 SC judges had no option but to go public

Normally, judges speak either through judgments or in meeting halls, not otherwise.

16 Jan 2018 12:56 AM IST