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A glimpse of how Huawei operates might be an eye-opener. (Photo: AP)

Huawei in India: The Chinese, finally, get their way

Indians need to understand the intrinsic multi-dimensional long-term strategy of the Communist Party government in Beijing.

03 Jan 2020 12:39 AM

God alone must be the sole and ultimate focus of all prayer. (Photo: AP)

Mystic Mantra: The healing power of prayer

Prayer is not only an entreaty to God, but a dynamic dialogue.

02 Jan 2020 1:50 AM

This man stood his ground the other day against a baton-wielding policeman at the Jamia Millia students’ protest In Delhi.

Hindus rejecting anti-Muslim bias a ray of hope in these dark times

The image trumped the visual chaos of violence, and shored up hope with more self-assuredness.

02 Jan 2020 1:48 AM

After Putin: Will Russia see new spring in winter?

Putin’s image has been corroded by overexposure.

02 Jan 2020 1:46 AM

The year 2019 has just gone past and we have barely stepped into 2020, with all its fanfare and undoubtedly with new expectations.

Mystic Mantra: On making New Year plans and resolutions

Thus, in the New Year, one of our resolutions should be to keep God, not just while planning things, but in the centre of everything.

01 Jan 2020 1:40 AM

As the attacks continue to suppress the protests, the fire flares up further, engulfing more campuses and streets across the country. (Photo: PTI)

Gandhi’s young India: Faithful, fearless, creative

Starting from the Northeastern state of Assam, the agitations and protests against the act united the aam aadmi and brought them on the roads.

01 Jan 2020 1:38 AM

The political highs and economic lows of Modi 2.0

It was clear that businesses were listless, and unable to make things happen.

01 Jan 2020 1:34 AM

Mystic Mantra: Drop resolutions! Be spontaneous

Resolution means you will allow only this and you will not allow that.

31 Dec 2019 1:00 AM

There is also a severe temporal lapse in the BJP’s drafting of the NRC as well as the CAA. (Photo: PTI)

CAA & NRC are a wake-up call for all Indians

Amit Shah needs to perhaps deliberate on his confidence about remaining in power for 50 years because of the 2019 parliamentary victory.

31 Dec 2019 12:54 AM

India’s Satya isn’t Sundar; that’s our ugly truth

Translated, Satya is Sundar, and Sundar is Satya. In our case, it is not.

31 Dec 2019 12:44 AM

Anti-CAA protesters hold placards and shout slogans at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Losing our religion, reimagining identity

India’s much-celebrated diversity has for long been about “living together, separately”.

30 Dec 2019 2:46 PM

If you think your work is important, the first thing you should do is work upon yourself, so that internally you are a stable being, no matter what the situation is externally.

Mystic Mantra: Life is uncertain, but uncertainty is freedom

If your interiority is in a non-compulsive, conscious state, then you determine your experience of life.

30 Dec 2019 7:28 AM

Dilli Ka Babu: Kaam Wapsi by senior officers?

Indian Economic Service (IES) officers have long felt ignored, overshadowed by the mighty IAS officers.

29 Dec 2019 1:06 AM

The ongoing curbs on Internet in the wake of the CAA-NRC protests are bothering a section of the Union government.

All quiet on the minority front

The Congress protest over the CAA-NRC turned out to be an exercise in demonstrating power equations within the party.

29 Dec 2019 12:34 AM

Campus Front of India activists stage a protest at Town Hall in Bengaluru on Saturday against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) (Photo: KPN)

Don’t make CAA, NRC Hindu vs Muslim issue

The NRC puts the onus of proving one’s citizenship on the citizen.

29 Dec 2019 12:10 AM

Both in India and Pakistan, there is a lack of awareness, generally speaking, about the nature of the divisions that produced Pakistan.

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

In Pakistan, and particularly after the military capture of the state by successive generals, the narrative became quite anti-Hindu.

29 Dec 2019 12:05 AM

CAA protests: Students were not armed, the police were

The court was informed that injured students were not being given medical aid.

29 Dec 2019 12:01 AM

Britain’s royals earn their daily bread, served on a golden plate

The German Hohenzollerns claimed a lineage extending 400 years, from 1415 to 1918.

28 Dec 2019 2:12 AM

As 2019 ends, West Asia sees a few silver linings, new dawn

Through December, there were reports of Saudi-Iranian interactions to discuss a possible accommodation of their competing interests.

28 Dec 2019 2:08 AM

The Rohingyas of Burma fled from genocidal persecution at the hands of the supposedly compassionate Buddhist nation. (Photo: AP)

Like in 1947, shouldn’t Hindus show compassion?

he Syrians and Iraqis fled from the ruins of internecine war.

28 Dec 2019 2:05 AM

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