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More than a lakh Mysureans performed Yoga with virtual instructions of 12 Yoga experts of Mysuru Yoga federation via facebook live from Mysuru Palace premises. (DC Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | India's culture & how it evolved Yoga is exercise,...

If yoga is Hindu, then karate is Buddhist, kung fu is Confucian and taekwondo also Buddhist

18 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath during a meeting, in New Delhi on June 11, 2021 (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | RSS, BJP & Yogi factor: Key to 2024 lies in UP

Yogi was permitted to create the impression that he was on a goodwill mission to New Delhi, and not summoned as a boy to...

18 Jun 2021 7:12 AM IST

The pandemic is indeed making many countries finally acknowledge that they have been undercounting Covid-19 deaths. (PTI Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid-19 accountability: Making the dead count

The states which are embracing greater data transparency deserve to be cheered even if by doing so, they push up India's...

17 Jun 2021 6:49 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | EC & UP: All 3 commissioners from state; Arora yet to...

Prepare for more babu surprises to emerge in and around Uttar Pradesh as the polls draw near

16 Jun 2021 9:14 AM IST

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

Claude Arpi | India must back Dalai's choice on his successor

Viewed from a political angle, many issues would be solved if the Dalai Lama decides to go for an 'emanation'

16 Jun 2021 9:03 AM IST

This video frame grab taken from footage recorded in mid-June 2020 and released by China Central Television (CCTV) on January 20, 2021 shows Chinese (foreground) and Indian soldiers (R, background) during an incident where troops from both countries clashed in the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan Valley, in the Karakoram Mountains in the Himalayas. (Photo by - / CCTV / AFP)

Probal DasGupta | Galwan, 2020: The Night that Changed the...

Galwan began a clamour for India to widen its sphere of rivalry with China and take advantage of the oceans

16 Jun 2021 7:18 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Civil society & NGOs: Why they matter in run-up to 2024

Adivasi resistance to the Indian State is not understood and it is not very widely covered in the media

15 Jun 2021 7:19 AM IST

Indian soldiers keep watch at India-China border. (AFP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Ladakh standoff: Can Galwan occur again?

Yet a Galwan could always happen as a spinoff from other circumstances, given the unpredictability of the LAC

15 Jun 2021 7:17 AM IST

P.V. Narasimha Rao (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao

Rao lent his prime ministerial imprimatur to the sweeping industrial and trade policy reforms that set India on a new...

14 Jun 2021 9:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath during a meeting, in New Delhi on June 11, 2021 (PTI)

Anita Katyal | UP rumblings: Yogi's men bank on Modi to allay 2022...

The BJP MLAs are hoping Yogi's meetings with the Prime Minister and home minister Amit Shah will yield positive results

13 Jun 2021 7:33 AM IST

The stock market is not a useful proxy for economic welfare. It tracks the well-being of an elitist minority in the formal sector, albeit with trickle down benefits. (By arrangement)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The morality of stock markets

Capital intensive competitive 'games' have a funneling effect where the biggest players benefit disproportionately

13 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar (PTI file photo)

Pavan K. Varma | Curb your enthusiasm, someone tell Dhankhar

Dhankharji's actions, to my mind, constitute a fit case for Prez Kovind to take suo motu initiative to counsel his...

13 Jun 2021 7:04 AM IST