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Imagine this. In a coffee shop, an unmarried woman in her early thirties sits alone sipping her favourite hot chocolate and reading a book, immersed in her happy place.

Mystic Mantra: Clear vision dictates sound action

The centre of everyone's sympathy, she remained completely unfazed.

27 Sept 2019 6:29 AM IST

Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud (Photo: AFP)

What do Saudis gain from acts of largesse towards Pak leaders?

A recent press conference by the Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs in Riyadh provided no clarity.

27 Sept 2019 6:19 AM IST

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will exceed the uranium enrichment limit it agreed upon in a 2015 deal. (Photo: AFP)

Saudi-Iran tussle always goes Tehran's way at UN

The up-and-down in Iran's image in Washington is frequent.

27 Sept 2019 6:15 AM IST

Replying to a debate on the amendment, Home Minister Amit Shah said a four-level scrutiny has been provided in the amendment and no human rights will be violated. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

How will one card solve any of India's problems?

The BJP may have been right when it laid down the law one man-one post.

27 Sept 2019 1:46 AM IST

Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru, is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: God keeps His loving gaze on us

The lives of saints show us that those who strive with effort and perseverance do indeed find the Divine within...

26 Sept 2019 1:04 AM IST

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informs that during protests 7 police vehicles and 79 KSRTC buses have been damaged. (Photo: ANI)

Masala bonds are Kerala's brave new infra model

The masala bonds were the brainchild of then chief economic adviser Raghuram Rajan in 2013 to tide over the acute...

26 Sept 2019 1:02 AM IST

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

Brexit blues: UK's future is uncertain and unwritten, given the...

On the other hand, culturally and economically, Britain was hardly cut off from the Continent in the decades leading up...

26 Sept 2019 12:57 AM IST

Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Kashmiris still in shock, preparing for long haul

Contrary to the claims of normality by the government, there is nothing normal in the Kashmir Valley.

26 Sept 2019 12:52 AM IST

President Donald Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. (Photo: AP)

Given the BJP's inverse Midas touch, should Trump worry?

Within a year of Khomeini's rule, Vajpayee's emissaries were standing with heads bowed in front of the new helmsman of...

26 Sept 2019 12:27 AM IST

The algorithms have been released on Github and Facebook hopes that developers and other companies will make use of it to identify harmful content.

Why social media guidelines?

Fake news factories are now being set up on both sides of the ideological fence.

26 Sept 2019 12:23 AM IST

Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Conservative Party lost a by-election in Wales, cutting his parliamentary majority to just one. (Photo: AFP)

A welcome judgment by Britain's highest court

The boldness in standing up to define the powers of governance must be admired.

26 Sept 2019 12:20 AM IST

The purpose of the day is to promote reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry.

Mystic Mantra: The mission of poetry

Poetry is the most incontrovertible evidence of the human will to survive.

25 Sept 2019 1:18 AM IST