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Caution over Bengal yatras

The rathyatras, of course, can't be rejected altogether, but it would have been ideal if religion didn't obtrude into...

17 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Failure to create jobs begins to haunt govt

The government should be even more worried as rural India bore the brunt of this jobless growth, and saw 84 per cent of...

17 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Right choice lies between two extremes

The key quality of a great storyteller is his or her ability to have the reader rooting for a character that the latter...

16 Jan 2019 1:31 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: Spiritual sounds from mystics

Every human culture produces some form of music.

16 Jan 2019 1:09 AM IST

In the war within our Parliament, the government and the Opp. have viciously clashed on just about every issue, and have often stopped just short of coming to blows. The raucous political cacophony has overshadowed one of the real crises that is facing the country the parlous state of the IAF. (Representational image)

Soul-searching is needed: India's ship of state' near breaking point

Elections 2019 promise to be a vitriolic event. The muddied flags of political parties can be cleaned by a simple rinse...

16 Jan 2019 1:07 AM IST

The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act 2019, that came into force from Monday, provides for a 10 per cent additional reservation for those not eligible earlier. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the bill within a week. So compelling were the provisions an inclusive agenda for the economically weaker sections (EWS) and explicit exclusion of the well-off that all parties were agreed a rare but welcome show of national consensus. (Representational image)

After EWS quota, only 10 per cent of India is left out

In comparison, the EWS quota is rather miserly, at less than 50 per cent (quota of 10 per cent for a population share of...

16 Jan 2019 12:20 AM IST

Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy

Power games in Karnataka

With the Lok Sabha election just 90-odd days away, the toppling game has only just begun.

16 Jan 2019 12:19 AM IST

Kanhaiya sedition' charge unjustified

The inference is that the nationalism the RSS-BJP lay down is beyond challenge.

16 Jan 2019 12:19 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: Five elements of the body

According to ayurveda, two-thirds of the diseases of the body are caused by an imbalance in the vata dosha or the vayu.

15 Jan 2019 12:20 AM IST

Sedition case on Kanhaiya, others is wrong

If the BJP wishes to criminalise anti-national slogans, it needs to create a specific law for this purpose.

15 Jan 2019 12:16 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the government has taken several measures for improving the ease of doing business in the country. (Photo: PTI)

When will PM hold his first press conference?

Media independence is bartered or jeopardised usually only when a journalist or the institution he or she works for...

15 Jan 2019 12:08 AM IST

Navy personnel conduct rescue task at the site of the coal mine collapse at Ksan, in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, Monday. (Photo: AP)

Hope fades for miners

The regulation of such activities with safety measures in place might prove the ultimate challenge.

15 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST