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When we enter silence, we enter the emptiness wherein the distinction between self and other, while not obliterated, is transcended. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: A quiet cheer for solitude

Solitude is the path to the realm of silence. Silence is the universal matrix, the vacuum that makes fullness possible.

23 July 2018 12:33 AM IST

Rudyard Kipling (Photo: AFP)

Of Kipling, modern monarchy ruling the UK and women taking over the...

When the poem If was painting over, we were reminded of what Kipling actually stood for.

23 July 2018 12:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Security of the state: Don't allow compromises

The Opposition is not an enemy like those across our borders, where soldiers have no choice but to kill or get killed in...

23 July 2018 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks during a plenary session on the occasion of World Environment Day in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Modi's African safari': Of Xi, Brics and more

The five nations constitute 26 per cent of the world's land mass and 43 per cent of its population.

23 July 2018 12:09 AM IST

Union minister Piyush Goyal borrowed the phrase to hit back at the Congress chief for a tweet targeting him over corruption allegations. (Photo: File)

Revise GST in one go

The rationale behind this tweaking isn't clear, though some say it was done to woo urban and rural voters ahead of the...

23 July 2018 12:02 AM IST

Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician and head of the party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan greets supporters during a political campaign rally in Multan. Pakistan will hold the general election on July 25, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Imran's PTI vs PML-N: Central Punjab will see a crucial battle

There were too many cats to stuff into the bag to begin with and the bag would have had to be small to remain...

23 July 2018 12:02 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

More chaos, violence likely after Pak polls

The political campaign has borne the full brunt of the playing out of the process of dangerous extremists wearing party...

23 July 2018 12:00 AM IST

Several IAS officers feel that the move is a clear attempt to attack the autonomy of UPSC which conducts the examination.

Dilli Ka Babu: Non-cooperation blues

The Centre is considering a major change in the allocation of services to successful candidates of the civil services...

22 July 2018 4:38 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

The last lap of Pakistan elections

Imran Khan's meetings have been well attended, generally, bar maybe one or two occasions where the crowd was rather...

22 July 2018 12:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha on no-confidence motion during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP via PTI)

No-trust motion exposed disarray in Oppn

Perhaps the real intent then was for the Opposition to launch its campaign for 2019 through this effort.

22 July 2018 12:08 AM IST

The collegium of the five senior most judges in the Supreme Court has deferred its decision to reconsider elevation of Uttarakhand High Courts Justice Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph. (Photo: File)

Accept Joseph's elevation

The question of the right to make the appointments was settled when the top court shot down the National Judicial...

22 July 2018 12:05 AM IST

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to the media after their meeting in the Presidential Palace in Helsinki. (Photo: AP)

Trump & the great global reset

The approach to international relations in America can broadly be classified into four schools of thought.

22 July 2018 12:04 AM IST