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The SC has not given Kashmiris the right to use the Internet though it made some pious noises about this in January.

BJP’s policies: What are the court’s priorities?

The SC has not heard the matter of Kashmiri leaders being locked up without charge or trial.

09 Feb 2020 4:53 AM

The protesters at Shaheen Bagh against the CAA-NRC divisive scheme were deliberately labelled as traitors and terrorists.

In lack of alternative, BJP’s hate festers

The election results will show whether such a strategy will bring dividends to the party.

09 Feb 2020 4:51 AM

Thereafter, there are four hallmarks of prayer: praise, surrender, petition and forgiveness.

Mystic Mantra: God, our Father, who sets us free

God is regarded as “Father” in some religious traditions, mainly Judaism and Christianity.

08 Feb 2020 3:19 AM

There have been attempts to convert Nazia’s son’s death into something else and not a sad consequence of him being present at Shaheen Bagh in the bone-chilling cold of the capital. (Photo: PTI)

Is the BJP paying attention to the voices from Shaheen Bagh?

The rest of the disturbing and depressing domestic news involves comical clips that would have raised a chuckle had they not been so bizarre.

08 Feb 2020 3:09 AM

Trump is on a roll now, India needs to cash in

President Trump’s victory in the Senate trial was a foregone conclusion with its Republican majority standing firm behind their leader.

08 Feb 2020 3:06 AM

Mystic Mantra: Leadership lessons for youngsters

Those who are spiritually aware see the same power enlivening all creation.

07 Feb 2020 1:55 AM

Why does the ‘rise’ of Rajinikanth in TN politics make DMK, AIADMK see red?

The media in TN would chew on Rajinikanth’s observations in the next two weeks as if he wants to drive out minorities in India and especially in TN.

07 Feb 2020 1:51 AM

Outrage against the unrelenting repression triggered the women of Shaheen Bagh to start a first-of-its-kind indefinite dharna to protest against police brutality and CAA-NRC. (Photo: PTI)

Firings at Shaheen Bagh must never be repeated

It becomes imperative to understand the “chronology” that has led up to this turn of events.

07 Feb 2020 1:50 AM

The universal message of the Indian musician-turned-mystic — Hazrat Inayat Khan — is more relevant in the current state of affairs, because he taught music with mysticism to the West when it was faced with World War I. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The Bowl of Saki - Sufi Inayat’s words of wisdom

In one of his discourses, The Art of Being and Becoming, Hazrat Inayat relays that “the first sign of realisation is tolerance towards others.

06 Feb 2020 2:16 AM

BJP leaders’ vitriol stems from shrinking footprint, insecurity

It is this set of voters that the AAP is focusing on and it does not want to alienate them by taking a stand on Shaheen Bagh.

06 Feb 2020 2:07 AM

We have a swimming pool, a gym, a club house, a garden, children’s play area, campus-wide CCTV cameras and round-the-clock security, a closely connected community; and no Muslim fellow-residents. And in that way too, we are a lot like most other flats, urban residential communities and gated communities, many a facility and no Muslims. I am not too sure but I doubt there are any dalits, either as owners or tenants.

Gated Republic: Who stole my Muslim neighbour?

Without an iota of doubt, almost everyone who resides in our building is secular, democratic and broad-minded.

06 Feb 2020 2:00 AM

Osho says: “Awareness means an intensity. Such an intensity of wakefulness that no thought interferes with. You are simply conscious without any thought. Try it. You can try it anywhere.

Mystic Mantra: The story of the Sufi mystic- Bayazid

A few people tried. They took a few steps but then came back, and said, “It is dangerous.”

05 Feb 2020 3:16 AM

The BJP is desperate to win the elections for two key reasons. It has to stall the march of the Opposition in Assembly elections and equally, it needs to capture power in the capital city on behalf of the business tycoons who shore up the party and who have been riled by Kejriwal’s campaign to keep crony capitalism at bay. (Photo: File)

Shaheen-CAA stir critically poised, but EC is inactive

A picture showed the man aiming the gun at the crowd while the policemen looked on indulgently.

05 Feb 2020 3:13 AM

A gun and a jet plane: The story of two face-offs

Goswami, minus the fortification of his studio, reminded me of a tyrannical schoolmaster, found strolling in the local bazar.

05 Feb 2020 3:11 AM

When we start looking at everything and everybody as a manifestation of the Supreme Divine Being, then there will be no hatred, jealousy, fear or pride. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Creation is manifestation of God in various forms

When everything is He, then there cannot be anything as good or anything as bad.

04 Feb 2020 6:34 AM

Brexit, finally, but with no fireworks & no flashing lights

Boris Johnson had his own party to celebrate, and Nigel Farage was seen grinning ecstatically at Parliament Square in Westminster.

04 Feb 2020 6:31 AM

BJP launches a proxy war on Shaheen Bagh on election eve

The PM urged NCC cadets to “read the right kind of books” by “unbiased historians” to learn the truth about Partition.

04 Feb 2020 6:29 AM

A medium to long-term vision for India’s economy

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has endeavoured to address most of the issues with a medium to long-term vision.

04 Feb 2020 6:26 AM

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh

Dilli Ka Babu: Punjab CM fights to retain top cop Dinkar Gupta

The Cabinet’s decision to merge eight service cadres of the railways into one has caused much heartburn ever since it was announced.

03 Feb 2020 1:43 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Unlike Gujarat, Modi’s focus is now on ideology, not economy

It appears to me that this focus on trying whatever was possible to push the economy has gone missing now from the Narendra Modi outlook.

03 Feb 2020 1:35 AM

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