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Looking back: Pandit Nehru vs Sardar Patel

Looking back: Pandit Nehru vs Sardar Patel

Mr Modi has invested hugely in creating the illusion that the Congress Party's preferred leader was the Sardar and that...

31 Oct 2018 12:16 AM IST

Happiness is not the enigma as it has been led to assume. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: God gives in abundance

When our objective is to make people happy then we give them utmost happiness and in utmost happiness they also give us...

30 Oct 2018 5:17 AM IST

These chargers would facilitate electric car users to charge their cars (battery electric vehicles such as the Mahindra e2o, Nissan Leaf, etc) at any time safely and conveniently. The chargers can also monitor the car battery charging status and units consumed while charging a car.

Who will lead India's transition in adopting electric vehicles?

According to the World Health Organisation, 14 of the planet's 15 most polluted cities are in India.

30 Oct 2018 5:12 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Does God exist?

Let us make God free from all concepts of personality.

29 Oct 2018 12:10 AM IST

Now, male behaviour is on the radar too; a rising number of women are saying no to unsafe workspaces, for themselves and others. This is one of the biggest achievements of the #MeToo campaign. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Pickpockets in London's subway

This may be the time for all oppressed women and men working for MPs to come together and collectively fight the...

29 Oct 2018 12:05 AM IST

Aurangzeb: 400 yrs on, relook at a cruel bigot F S Aijazuddin Updated : Mar 8, 2018, 10:42 pm IST Aurangzeb was one of 14 children Shah Jahan sired from his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. The latest installation in the dark pantheon of Hindutvas anti-heroes is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Had he lived, he would have been exactly 400 years old this year. Dead, he has become the target of barbs poisoned with prejudice. Generations since Aurangzebs death in 1707 have been force-fed the stale gruel that Aurangzeb, the monarch was a narrow-minded, Hindu-hating bigot who wasted his Mughal inheritance in a foolhardy obsession with conquering the Deccan. Some go so far as to assert that he single-handedly rang the death knell of the Mughal Empire. A few even argue that had Dara Shukoh (Aurangzebs eldest brother and rival) not lost the battle for their fathers throne, a post-1947 India would have been one contiguous, homogenous political realm, in which Muslim rulers and their multi-religious subjects would have lived in communal harmony. Four hundred years is too long a time to sustain such wisps of conjecture. The fact is that Dara Shukoh lost and Aurangzeb won. History can be an impatient judge, often passing a hasty verdict disproportionate to the crime. That is why any biography of Aurangzeb, especially one as unbiased as Audrey Truschkes Aurangzeb: the Man and The Myth (2017) is a necessary, albeit overdue, corrective. Aurangzeb was one of 14 children Shah Jahan sired from his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. He and his eldest brother Dara Shukoh could not have been more dissimilar. Dara inherited the aesthetic sense of his forebears, Aurangzeb their martial prowess. Dara Shukoh was a man of letters, a Sufi, an ornamented prince with dreams; Aurangzeb a man of action, a soldier, a ruthless tactician. Had Aurangzeb possessed the literary flair of his ancestors, he might have left a fuller chronicle of his own reign, as detailed as the Baburnama, the Humayun-nama, the Akbarnama, the Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, or the equivalent of Shah Jahans Padshahnama. Instead, Aurangzebs personal reticence, like Cordelias, proved to be his undoing. The perfunctory Maasir-i-Alamgiri has been overtaken by less kindly legends. Aurangzebs 88-year-long life falls into four parts. Up to the age of 17, he was brought up in his fathers court and groomed in all the skills Mughal princes needed to govern.

A new form of book ban has been introduced

The RSS set up the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in 1964 to capture the Babri Masjid.

28 Oct 2018 6:27 AM IST

An unidentified person has issued a death threat to Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, police said on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: A quiet succession

The nation's top investigative agencies are in a very public meltdown, riven by the fierce rivalries among their top...

28 Oct 2018 5:15 AM IST

US President Donald Trump shows a signed Presidential Memorandum after delivering a statement on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (Photo: AP)

Simple nationalism is leading us to anger

The Democrats and the business community say that the entry of blue-collar workers from Mexico helps the US economy.

28 Oct 2018 5:08 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: Our true religion

Modern man has erected images in his mind political, personal, that manifest in the form of symbols, ideas and...

27 Oct 2018 12:58 AM IST

Now, male behaviour is on the radar too; a rising number of women are saying no to unsafe workspaces, for themselves and others. This is one of the biggest achievements of the #MeToo campaign. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Protests can be absurd sometimes

The snowflake twitter storm troopers objected to this labeling on the grounds perhaps, that it implied that only males...

27 Oct 2018 12:35 AM IST

The senior Trump administration official said the United States will have a process to recognize same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is not legal, but which recognize American domestic partners. (Representational Image)

America is central to the economy of drugs

The world's major cocaine production centres are all located in South America.

27 Oct 2018 12:31 AM IST

According to decibel levels recorded by Awaaz Foundation, there was less noise pollution in the run-up to Diwali and fewer crackers were used overall.

Mystic Mantra: Light in darkness

Soon it will be time for Deepavali the festival celebrated to remove the darkness of evil with the light of goodness.

26 Oct 2018 12:12 AM IST