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Protesters hurl brick, bats during clashes between police, a group of anti-CAA protesters and supporters of the new Citizenship Act at Jafrabad in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: Asian Age)

Can govt answer the moral question on CAA?

As is expected of it, the government has no plans to take the move lying down.

5 March 2020 2:10 AM IST

Osho says: Awareness means an intensity. Such an intensity of wakefulness that no thought interferes with. You are simply conscious without any thought. Try it. You can try it anywhere.

Mystic Mantra: The inseparable opposites of yin and yang

The day has the active yang energy which melts into the restful yin of darkness. So, the art of living consists in...

5 March 2020 2:05 AM IST

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

A culture that bans films is afraid to face the truth

The government's retraction of the permission to screen Zindagi Tamasha gave certain religious elements a greater sense...

5 March 2020 2:02 AM IST

William Shakespeare

When Shakespeare' speaks on Indian politics

Rahul Gandhi has been missing from the anti-CAA protests, I posed. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, he...

5 March 2020 1:58 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Politics in the age of TV: Ex-PM Abbasi leads the pack

With Khan, there was, and continues to be, a greater level of comfort and a sense of equality.

4 March 2020 3:03 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

Bengal war: Just political smarts won't be enough

As much as other issues, parliamentary democracy in a multi-party federal State will also be on trial.

4 March 2020 3:00 AM IST

Only an impartial inquiry into the Delhi riots, which brought about a recrudescence of communal violence not seen for a couple of decades, would help dispel the notion that the instigators would get away. (PTI)

Don't blame Iran

Majoritarianism would be seen to prevail once again prevail if those who spewed inflammatory speeches go scot-free.

4 March 2020 2:55 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi

No more than a trick to sidetrack, chill riot flak

As the PM himself on Tuesday confirmed, he would leave social media only for a day.

4 March 2020 2:52 AM IST

People today are trying to broaden their minds, which may make one socially successful, not truly successful. If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is, without distortions.

Mystic Mantra: What decides our success?

It is quite disturbing for me that someone's sickness is a lucrative business, because you would not want everyone to...

4 March 2020 2:40 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi

Delhi riot, Halle synagogue attack prove bigotry is a handy state...

A sting operation comes to mind. It was conducted by an intrepid journalist on one of the leading mob heads in Gujarat.

4 March 2020 2:33 AM IST

PMK grasps cinema's power, belatedly

The 2014 statement was on Ramadoss's pet peeve: Fake register marriages used to extort money from parents of innocent...

4 March 2020 2:30 AM IST

Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Viewing the Afghan prism with new eyes

For the most part, the Taliban has been viewed in India as a dangerous terrorist group which is in cahoots with...

3 March 2020 7:06 AM IST