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Always remember that successful and happy people are not those who get the best of everything in life, but are the ones who make the best of everything they get in life. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: An omnipresent Almighty

Any question about existence is simply meaningless because all questions are limited.

17 Aug 2018 3:46 AM IST

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama speaks during the World Peace and Harmony Conclave in Mumbai on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Of Dalai, Gandhi, Nehru & Jinnah: For monks, silence is always best

What the Indian government and people across the country have done for the Tibetan people is unparalleled in world...

17 Aug 2018 3:42 AM IST

Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

Battle for Dravida dynasty to strain Centre-TN ties

The MGR-Jayalalithaa charisma had obscured the Dravida movement's earlier anti-Hindi, anti-north and anti-brahmin edge.

17 Aug 2018 2:31 AM IST

Social media and the sharing economy have created opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove market barriers. (Photo: Pixabay)

Get serious on data privacy

The only way is for the government to strictly regulate new age tech czars.

17 Aug 2018 2:27 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

A true statesman of the highest calibre

If Vajpayee's successors can show his broadness of vision, we will be a better society and country.

17 Aug 2018 2:26 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

A 'liberal' pragmatist & last of the Nehruvians

Vajpayee said if he were to criticise a person the way he criticised Nehru, that person would stop talking to him.

17 Aug 2018 1:12 AM IST

Addressing the press conference, Imran Khan said: I came into politics 22 years ago because I believed that the potential of our country was not being realised. The Pakistan that I saw growing up deteriorated in front of my very eyes. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Creating party watchdogs will help Imran to perform better

Pakistan came into being at a time when separation of party and government offices was the ideal of democratic...

17 Aug 2018 1:05 AM IST

Intelligence agencies have cautioned the government about the Naxals new strategy in a recent classified report, details of which have been accessed by this newspaper. (Photo: PTI/File)

Pitfalls of broken promises: It's a long history

A wholly socio-economic-cultural genesis of unrest in Punjab in the 1970s was mismanaged politically and driven towards...

16 Aug 2018 6:32 AM IST

Predominantly Muslim Malaysia sends some 27,000 pilgrims to perform the hajj every year. (Photo: AP)

An engagement with the almighty

Haj is a set of rituals that takes place in and around Mecca each year in this month of Zil-haj, the last and 12th month...

16 Aug 2018 2:28 AM IST

Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq (Photo: AFP)

The death of a dictator

The tall tales could usually be dismissed out of hand.

16 Aug 2018 2:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with children during Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

PM, at Red Fort, goes all out for Polls 2019

Modi had hoped that if simultaneous elections were held, his personal image would help to overcome local...

16 Aug 2018 2:27 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

More Delhi fissures

It remains to be seen what sort of evidence can be gathered when the CCTVs were switched off.

16 Aug 2018 2:27 AM IST