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Swadeshi seeds have been bred for nutrition and health, taste and quality. (Representational image)

Seeds of diversity, resilience and freedom

Swadeshi seeds have been bred for drought tolerance, flood tolerance as well as salt tolerance.

6 Dec 2017 12:24 AM IST

In this file photo, kar sevaks celebrate after demolishing the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. (Photo: File)

25 years later, Ayodhya is now on backburner

The liberals have been fixated on the Babri Masjid, but they barely mention those killed in the riots.

6 Dec 2017 12:23 AM IST

A craftsman par excellence

More than being an immensely successful actor, Shashi was also a craftsman who did much for the performing arts.

6 Dec 2017 12:23 AM IST

In October, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had lashed out at the Modi government, calling the GST - Gabbar Singh Tax, meant to extort money from people. (Photo:PTI)

With Rahul Gandhi's elevation, changes loom in Congress

There is no question that Mr Gandhi is a dynast, and the issue of family connections does loom large in the Congress.

6 Dec 2017 12:23 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: In harmony hides peace

We should not be indulgent towards our negative traits, but be firm in exercising self-control and following right...

5 Dec 2017 5:56 AM IST

Monitoring & enforcement of Net neutrality a huge task for regulators'

Dr. V. Sridhar has been a member of Government of India committees on spectrum allocation and pricing.

5 Dec 2017 5:51 AM IST

The Gonds are now a culturally and linguistically heterogeneous people, having attained much cultural uniformity with the dominant linguistic influences of their region. (Representational image)

Gondwana: The homeland of adivasis

The process of Hinduisation combined with Hindi culture has reduced the egalitarian Koitur to the bottom of the social...

5 Dec 2017 5:42 AM IST

US President Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump (Photo: AFP)

After Ivanka, will papa Donald come calling soon?

Trump recently enjoyed what were reckoned successful tours of China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines.

5 Dec 2017 5:37 AM IST

Demonstrators protest as police fire tear gas shells to disperse them during a clash in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

Is society moving to the right?

Lots of underlying developments are taking place that appear to contradict the idea of a society tottering on the brink...

5 Dec 2017 4:44 AM IST

A man watches a road that has been cut off due to floods following heavy rainfall caused by the cyclone Ockhi in the Kanyakumari district. (Photo: PTI)

Ockhi is a natural calamity

By declaring it a natural calamity, the Centre would help assuage some of the considerable damage.

5 Dec 2017 4:39 AM IST

Using earned money of depositors to bail out a bank amounts to gross interference by the government.

Another bid to loot public money

Bank deposits are to be used for productive purposes and not to bail out defaulters.

5 Dec 2017 4:39 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Meditation From misery to bliss

Meditation should not be treated as a fashion embraced by movie stars.

4 Dec 2017 12:31 AM IST