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Union home minister and BJP leader Amit Shah during an election campaign rally at Seemapuri constituency in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Will carpet-bombing' of Delhi help BJP win polls?

While it's seldom easy to call an election, the BJP seems to have become the principal challenger to the AAP's perceived...

7 Feb 2020 1:42 AM IST

One of the Indian mystics who celebrated divine love and syncretic devotion was Maulana Hasrat Mohani. In his own words, he was a Sufi momin (Sufi believer), ishtiraaki Muslim (secular Muslim), Aashiq-e-Rasool (lover of the holy Prophet) and at the same time, a Krishna bhakt (devotee of Krishna). (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The Bowl of Saki - Sufi Inayat's words of wisdom

In one of his discourses, The Art of Being and Becoming, Hazrat Inayat relays that the first sign of realisation is...

6 Feb 2020 2:16 AM IST

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar (Photo: PTI)

BJP leaders' vitriol stems from shrinking footprint, insecurity

It is this set of voters that the AAP is focusing on and it does not want to alienate them by taking a stand on Shaheen...

6 Feb 2020 2:07 AM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

Gated Republic: Who stole my Muslim neighbour?

Without an iota of doubt, almost everyone who resides in our building is secular, democratic and broad-minded.

6 Feb 2020 2:00 AM IST

US President Donald Trump has said that he is considering signing the first phase of the long-awaited trade deal with China in Iowa. (Photo: File)

Trump's peace deal of century': But the outrage seems missing

The irrepressible Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy has a somewhat different take on the matter.

6 Feb 2020 1:56 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi

Delhi poised on edge: Can a hate chant win?

The young men who breezily sauntered down the road shouting explicitly violent slogans were eventually bundled into a...

6 Feb 2020 1:54 AM IST

US president Donald Trump

Telangana lessons for America

Donald Trump and his party lost no time in ridiculing the Democrats, asking how they would run the country if they can't...

6 Feb 2020 1:44 AM IST

A second militant was killed in the fire fight raging in Jammu and Kashmirs northern Bandipore district since Sunday morning. (Representational | PTI)

After 6 months, J&K's future remains bleak

The obvious facts that can be seen from daily media reporting appear far from reassuring.

6 Feb 2020 1:42 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 story of the Sufi mystic- Bayazid

A few people tried. They took a few steps but then came back, and said, It is dangerous.

5 Feb 2020 3:16 AM IST

The BJP is desperate to win the elections for two key reasons. It has to stall the march of the Opposition in Assembly elections and equally, it needs to capture power in the capital city on behalf of the business tycoons who shore up the party and who have been riled by Kejriwals campaign to keep crony capitalism at bay. (Photo: File)

Shaheen-CAA stir critically poised, but EC is inactive

A picture showed the man aiming the gun at the crowd while the policemen looked on indulgently.

5 Feb 2020 3:13 AM IST

A gun and a jet plane: The story of two face-offs

Goswami, minus the fortification of his studio, reminded me of a tyrannical schoolmaster, found strolling in the local...

5 Feb 2020 3:11 AM IST

International investigators have revealed that Chinese doctors and epidemiologists who rang alarm bells in December were disciplined and their comments on social media were erased by government censors. One medical practitioner in Wuhan who was demanding urgent attention to the virus as it was proliferating was forced to confess to the police that he had engaged in illegal behaviour . (Photo: AP)

Coronavirus is China's huge political failure

China's Communist Party has only itself to blame for the devastating crisis it has on its hands.

5 Feb 2020 3:08 AM IST