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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

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 fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)

Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

21 July 2018 12:33 AM IST

Sufism (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Ibrahim From king to ascetic

Ibrahim was a wealthy king whose palace was full of gold, silver and precious gems.

21 July 2018 12:26 AM IST

Zlatan Ibrahimovics 94th-minute penalty earned Manchester United a 1-1 draw against Everton. (Photo: AP)

Multiculturalism & Europe: Don't forget history

The 78-day US bombing of Serbia during the Kosovo war was designed to oust the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic.

20 July 2018 6:28 AM IST

The candid eyes of CCTV cameras may have recorded the gory incidents of sexual abuse in graphic detail.(Representational image)

India's Church: Mired in controversies

The matter is serious and needs to be investigated thoroughly, beyond the political rhetoric.

20 July 2018 12:15 AM IST

God always wants us to triumph over our karmic hurdles because only then will we fulfill the purpose of life, which is to grow into better human beings.

Mystic Mantra: Knowledge is the key to happiness

In most of the cases your fear will be found to be imaginary and if it is a real snake then also it will run away...

19 July 2018 6:29 AM IST

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

Pak Punjab is the real battleground: It can make or break Imran's...

Imran is surely much closer to fulfilling his dream this time with a favourable playing field.

19 July 2018 6:29 AM IST