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Mystic Mantra: Act we must!

Memories are related to the world of sense objects, of form, smell, touch, taste and sound.

18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM IST

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

'Burqa jokes' become a pawn in the great game of 'Politopoly'

What could be characterised, absorbed and dismissed as prankish provocation of an idiosyncratic satirist, was not in...

18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM IST

A file photo of Atal Behari Vajpayee with US President Bill Clinton

A visionary who reshaped India's global role

Vajpayee wanted to allay Pakistani fears that India, particularly his own party, the BJP, wanted to undo the Partition...

18 Aug 2018 1:22 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A man of few words who left millions spellbound

The poet in Atalji often made him reclusive, and prone to staccato sentences which he left to the intelligence of the...

18 Aug 2018 1:14 AM IST

Cricket loses a leader

Ajit rise to the captaincy came in controversial circumstances, with the casting vote of then chairman of selectors...

18 Aug 2018 12:37 AM IST

Banning of letters of undertaking (LoUs) and letters of comfort (LoCs) by the RBI as trade finance instruments is likely to reduce financial flexibility of importers, a Fitch group company said on Wednesday.

Falling rupee will burn a hole in our pockets

There are hopes in some quarters that the Reserve Bank of India would intervene to stop the rupee's slide.

18 Aug 2018 12:36 AM IST

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