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As Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee explains, the Sufi comes into this world to love and serve the divine and this destiny is stamped within the heart in fire.

Mystic Mantra: Our bond with divine grace

No previous society has offered seekers so many different ways to chase after Nirvana, so many different paths to...

16 Jan 2018 1:31 AM IST

Whatever you do kids, dont become a figure of hate for the left

Nation on the mat as Modi wins

He focused on little things, and on shadows that did not exist but were cooked up and labelled as enemies by the RSS.

16 Jan 2018 1:28 AM IST

Supreme Court judges (from left) Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur address the media in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: File/AP)

4 SC judges had no option but to go public

Normally, judges speak either through judgments or in meeting halls, not otherwise.

16 Jan 2018 1:25 AM IST

Indian Army. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Wars in India: Looking back at history

The Mahabharat was a civil war and no Indian really celebrates it. The Ramayan, on other hand, was a war.

15 Jan 2018 12:32 AM IST

Supreme Court on Tuesday modified its order on National Anthem and said it is not mandatory in cinema halls. (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Panel to study national anthem

The panel will be headed by Brij Raj Sharma, special secretary in the ministry of home affairs in charge of border...

14 Jan 2018 12:50 AM IST

Triple talaq is not legal anymore, but this is an unsatisfactory state of affairs and can often leave a woman married according to her and divorced according to her husband.

Triple talaq bill: Govt did not follow the set procedure

Rule 74 of the Lok Sabha's Rules of Procedure mentions motions that may be moved after introduction of a bill.

14 Jan 2018 12:45 AM IST

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

Of politicians and their soothsayers

Ronald Reagan's wife regularly consulted a Californian syndicated horoscope columnist.

14 Jan 2018 12:40 AM IST

About 40 per cent of Test matches in India end in draws while only 7 per cent of those played in South Africa are draws. (Representational image)

Let's spin out of Test-ing times

In the 10 places listed as the best venues for bowlers in Tests in the decade 2000-2010, there is not a single Indian...

14 Jan 2018 12:35 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Tories' divide drove May's rejig, with some UK Asians gaining

Labour reformed education and health provision for all and there was born an optimism that the rigidities of class would...

13 Jan 2018 12:37 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Modi@Davos: A new kind of challenge

Mr Modi was one of the first to warn the developed world that terrorism was a hydra which strikes rich and poor alike.

13 Jan 2018 12:28 AM IST

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Mystic Mantra: Feminine in the ultimate sense

This primordial energy is always identified as feminine. It is just lying there, throbbing, but it cannot do anything by...

12 Jan 2018 12:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: File/AP)

China threat: Trap, penetrate, destroy

Things are vastly different today, thanks to the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations and bilateral proposals.

11 Jan 2018 1:46 AM IST