My GDP bigger than yours: Thanks to release of back series for economic growth, netas finally debate relevant issues

Earlier this week, this newspaper made an interesting comparison of GDP growth under various prime ministers of India. This came after the National Statistics Commission revised the methodology for calculating GDP, which in turn led...

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AFSPA is not a licence to kill, charges of extrajudicial killings by security forces must be investigated

The Supreme Court will hear, next week, the petition of 356 serving personnel including 74 army officers, who have questioned the legality of any action taken against them in states, particularly Manipur and Jammu &...

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The real way to celebrate Janmashtami

By Radhanath Swami Janmashtami is the festival commemorating the appearance of Krishna in this world. He is believed to have appeared 5,000 years ago in a prison cell in Mathura. Janmashtami represents the appearance of...

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Happiness on earth: Insights on this elusive entity from the World Happiness Report, and other places

 Are you happy? It’s a question that can leave many of us confused. Yes, we might say but, well, on the whole. Or no, that back pain, or a more debilitating illness, is excruciating. Life...

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Scrap sedition: Law Commission rightly questions draconian law

Given habitual and wanton misuse of sedition laws by governments, the outgoing Law Commission’s questioning of the law criminalising sedition in the Indian Penal Code could not have been more timely. Its ringing defence of...

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Shirty rules: In tennis men have a topless advantage

The Grand Slams seem to keep breaking into a sweat over women’s bodies. Serena Williams is being banned from wearing a catsuit at future French Opens and Alize Cornet has received a US Open code...

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What story are you telling yourself?

Each one of us on this earth is an excellent storyteller. Once Laddu Pinto – a middle school student – fared poorly in half-yearly examinations. When his parents started questioning him and wanted to understand...

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GDP data for April-June quarter have positive implications for economy

An quick reading of the gross domestic product data for the April-June quarter of 2018-19, which was unveiled a short while ago, is that there is a strong growth impulse  in the economy. The GDP...

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How to make India a more tax compliant society

Finance minister Arun Jaitley defended the criticism that Narendra Modi government has been subjected to on demonetization by writing that “the larger purpose of demonetisation was to move India from a tax noncompliant society to...

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India should use jugaad to win even more medals in the next Asiad

India has already picked up an impressive tally of medals in the ongoing Asian games.  The grit and determination shown by all our sportspeople, and not just by the medal winners, has been truly inspirational,...

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Has Indian athletics turned the corner? The Asiad performance does give hope

The Indian athletics contingent has literally blazed the track and field with its best ever overseas performance in an Asian Games. India’s haul of 19 medals (7 gold, 10 silver and 2 bronze) in athletics...

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Monster Inside?

Machines are talking to each other…they are devising their own language and my god! It is all out of control! Technology that man created is turning on its master. It’s a monster! It will enslave...

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DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Let’s go for Silver

The ongoing Asian Games in Jakarta has shone the spotlight, yet again, an interesting aspect about us. We love gold jewellery so much that we’ll have biscuits & tea for breakfast just to save money...

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Bureaucrat’s fix: Social media isn’t the lynch mob’s oxygen. Improve law and order, excise hate from politics

A panel of secretaries tasked with studying the spate of lynchings has found a convenient bugbear: social media. In a report to a Group of Ministers, the bureaucrats are reported to have stressed on the...

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Out of court: Supreme Court orders already overworked judges to inspect all places of worship 😜

With a 3.1 crore backlog of pending cases and 23,000 vacancies, judges will now have to do a ‘judicial audit’ of all temples, mosques and churches. – TOI news report. Two judges bemoaning the extra...

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Vajpayee’s lost legacy: The space for the liberal Hindu is shrinking in today’s politics

In the last fortnight the ruling BJP has made every effort to make sure that memorials of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee are raised to the same heights as Nehru-Gandhi memorials once were. From...

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Even-mindedness brings with it happiness

By Nayaswamis Jyotish & Devi Students returning to school in Delhi this term are finding a new class added to their schedule: Happiness. Similarly, this year at Yale University, a course offered to undergrads on achieving...

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DeMon demon: The most ill-considered economic move by the Modi government has been demonetisation

Following the release this Wednesday of Reserve Bank of India’s annual report of 2017-18, it is clear the government is clutching at straws by claiming that the objectives of the November 2016 demonetisation exercise have...

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‘Addicts belong in hospitals, not jails … putting ganja in the same category as cocaine has led to even more harm to society’

The chief ministers of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have come together to jointly fight the drug menace. In this context, Dr Atul Ambekar of the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, AIIMS New Delhi,...

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An Important Cog: An India-Vietnam-Taiwan axis could add to the multipolarity narrative in the Indo-Pacific

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s recent visit to Vietnam again signified growing enhancement of bilateral ties between New Delhi and Hanoi. And apart from holding wide-ranging discussions with her Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh –...

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Demonetization was a terrible economic move

Reserve Bank of India’s annual report for 2017-18, which was released on Wednesday, has stated that 99.3% of the high value currency notes which were demonetized on November 8, 2016 were returned by their holders....

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Equality of judges outside the court rooms

In recent times, the Indian judiciary has pronounced some very enlightened judgments such as right to privacy, triple talaq, ordinances to be placed before the legislature, invoking religion/caste for seeking vote amounting to corruption, turning...

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Malayalam channels set the bar high

I sold my TV four years ago and haven’t missed it one bit. My primary grouse with TV was the deteriorating quality of so called national news channels. But during the Kerala floods something happened....

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The VIP is an anachronism in the fast lane towards progress; drop the idea of separate lanes at toll plazas

A Madras high court order asking National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to provide separate lanes at toll plazas for VIPs, including judges, across India must be overturned by Supreme Court at the earliest. The...

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McCarthy moment? Pune police’s countrywide swoop on left wing activists rightly elicits outrage and legal challenge

A lot appears amiss in the Pune police raids on seven activists and arrest of five of them for alleged Maoist links. For a major case leading to a nationwide swoop, the original FIR alleging...

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The meaning of Krishna’s eternal smile

By Mata Amritanandamayi Sri Krishna is believed to have lived some 5,000 years ago. He is invoked as one of the most charming and insightful avatars of Sri Vishnu. To worship Sri Krishna is to become...

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Free lunch coming: Lab grown meat could simultaneously resolve environmental and ethical issues

Union minister Maneka Gandhi recently made a case for laboratory-grown meat to address environmental and ethical issues arising out of current meat consumption patterns. Lab meat is meat grown in laboratories from a handful of...

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Cult and culture: The ‘Naked Chef’ got stripped over his ‘cultural appropriation’? Why?! 😜

British celeb chef Jamie Oliver is being seared for ‘cultural appropriation’: he added ‘Punchy Jerk Rice’ to his supermarket range. According to the rageists, ‘jerk’ is a Jamaican spice which rubs up against chicken, or...

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‘People in Kerala have shown remarkable resolve … communities, particularly women, should drive reconstruction process’

PK Mishra, additional principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, spearheaded the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority created after the Kutch earthquake in 2001. Later, he led a taskforce to review the Disaster Management Act,...

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Endless Voting Machinations: Are opposition leaders’ EVM attacks an anticipatory bail against potential political extinction?

The most dangerous debate ahead of the coming election season is also the most useless one. The debate is on whether electronic voting machines (EVMs) guarantee fair polling. The debate is dangerous because it seeks...

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Activists’ arrests: Another example of intolerance?

Most ordinary people from day to day life do not take to guns, murder or violence. Faced with unbridled corruption, wickedness or incompetence amongst babus, politicians, policemen and even judiciary, we are often driven to...

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Rising diesel price: In politics, you reap what you sow

Retail price of diesel in Delhi touched an all-time of Rs 69.46 a litre early this week. Petrol prices too have increased in the recent past. The upward movement in fuel prices at the retail...

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Is the tide changing, finally?

Let’s be honest, I don’t think Rahul Gandhi quite makes the cut as an intellectual or a born leader. Not yet at least. Nor do I find him as clever as his grandmother was. Having...

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The RSS isn’t an NGO, it very much a government organisation

Following the nation-wide police raids and arrests of several social activists – eerily reminiscent of an autocratic Indira Gandhi’s Emergency – Rahul Gandhi ironically remarked that the RSS, the Hindu right-wing organisation, was the only...

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After dramatic arrest of activists by Pune Police, courts come into the picture

The arrest of five activists across five cities raises several questions which Pune police will have to answer in the coming days. The police ploy of arresting the activists instead of calling them for questioning...

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Asiad green shoots: Indian youngsters are breaking through at the acme of sports

Neeraj Chopra lived up to his growing reputation and created Asian Games history by bagging the gold for India in the javelin event. The last time India finished on the javelin podium at this level...

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Punjab following Pakistan? Many Indians who identify as secular are fighting for a 15th century version of it

The attempt by Punjab’s governing party to legislate an anti-blasphemy law has attracted criticism, as a step backward from a modern, democratic, secular republic. This, just weeks after a prominent MP of the same party...

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To enjoy life to the full, turn spiritual

By Jaya Row Spirituality is commonly associated with sense denial, withdrawal from the world and austerity, giving up the good things of life, moving away from family and worldly possessions and retiring to the forest....

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My encounters with Vajpayee: He combined razor sharp astuteness with lightness of touch and largeness of heart

I met Atalji for the first time during his third term as prime minister. It was during this period that we established our Foundation to work with India’s government schools. This first meeting with him,...

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Gone to pot: The latest addition to your loo has you sitting on the lakh of luxury 😜

It was a half-page, full-colour ad in a national daily. The product it was promoting came with a hefty price tag, being the latest thing in status symbols. So what was it? A top-of-the-line smart...

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Same old mistakes: Maharashtra’s indirect attempt to ban some agricultural markets will boomerang

India’s political economy is a paradox. Politicians derive legitimacy from popular support. But in office, their default approach is to deny people their agency. Hence, regardless of the political party, public policy is characterised by...

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Gokhale Method Covered by Stanford STAP Funds

Stanford now lists the Gokhale Method Foundations course (link is external) as an option for which Stanford staff can use their STAP (Staff Training Assistance Program) funds. I am thrilled that the educational institution closest...

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Teaching Desmond Tutu the Gokhale Method

Several years ago, I had the good fortune to teach Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African social rights activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. He was recommended to my care by a common friend. His...

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I’d Like My Diversity Stirred Not Shaken Please

So, will the next James Bond be a man or a woman, black or white? Who will land that most coveted of movie roles? Idris, Tom, Emily, Riz or, ahem, me? Might as well throw...

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Peace Constituency: An India-China-Pakistan annual sports meet can create the right atmosphere between the three nations

As Neeraj Chopra – India’s javelin ace – took to the podium to accept his Asian Games gold medal, the picture was made more significant by the presence of the two runners-up beside him. This...

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How the tragedy in Kerala brought out the best in many Indians

The devastation in Kerala on account of floods has triggered two kinds of responses. On social media, the reactions have often been disgraceful.  That seems to be the stock response on social media regardless of...

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It’s courtrooms all the way for the big Singh family

Just imagine this. A few years ago, the brothers, Malvinder and Shivinder, were darlings of India Inc. The younger brother shied away from the media, the elder handled the whirring cameras and pesky reporters. What...

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For big bang election reform and to curb black money, come clean on party income and expenditure

Disagreements between political parties on regulating poll expenditure and trusting electoral voting machines reveal the difficult way forward for electoral reform in India. Essentially, the ruling BJP and most opposition parties are on two sides...

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Imran and Naya Pakistan

Every society lives on hope like we Indians hope for ache din(good days), Pakistanis are also entitled to a Naya Pakistan. Elections in South Asia are messy but Pakistanis have taken to electoral politics with...

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Why creating jobs is the silver bullet to solving India’s many developmental challenges

The Arab Spring, the uprising that rapidly spread through the Middle East in 2010-11, can be attributed to long-simmering dis-content resulting from unworthy employment. When the Arab Spring was triggered, one in every four young...

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Irrelevant politics: There is little serious debate on the most pressing economic problem of our time – jobs

Following release of provisional gross domestic product (GDP) data which allows for a comparison of economic growth between the UPA and NDA periods, there’s been a fractious debate between representatives of Congress and BJP. The...

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Connection between philosophy and science

By G S Tripathi Leonardo da Vinci’s words, “Learn how to see. Everything is connected to everything else,” awakened my mind and I could feel the connection between philosophy and science. I fell back to two...

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Long and short of it: Choosing between hygiene and being longhaired like Rapunzel 😜

I love my India. And while i can tolerate most things about her – the heat, the dust, my mother in law – i cannot stand being called ‘Sir’. Yes, my flat chest may have...

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Flavour power: She says coconut oil is pure poison, they love eating, drinking, massaging it

For the love of coconut, science and fashion have a seriously on-off relationship when it comes to food. Praiseful research can make a fad out of some animal or weed. But dare it censure their...

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How not to help Kerala: There is no rationale for rejecting foreign assistance on humanitarian disasters

Shivshankar Menon and Nirupama Rao, two amongst the most prominent foreign secretaries India has had, are now in a dilemma – on how strongly to pitch for a change in MEA’s policy that is obstructing...

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The Story of the Stretchsit® Cushion

Earlier in the history of our company, we didn’t intend to create any posture products and thought education alone would be sufficient. We still stand by our philosophy that education is the most important ingredient...

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Why this deference towards Islam?

In a foreign country, we must wear what we want, but in our country, you must wear what we want. This thought struck me when I saw Princess Diana visiting Imran Khan’s hospital in Pakistan...

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Home Truths: From Morocco to India, joblessness ought to be declared as Enemy No.1

In his speech on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI chose to focus on youth development in his country. Describing young people...

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Hardik Patel returns with another quota agitation but India needs politicians who talk of growing more jobs, not subdividing them

Just a month after turning 25, the minimum age to contest elections, Patidar reservation campaigner Hardik Patel has announced loudly his political and electoral ambitions with an indefinite hunger fast demanding quota and farm loan...

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Wanted: A future lieutenant for Stalin

Stalin needs a younger person who can step in, listen to the elders and run the show when he needs help. Blessings from his mother, support from DMK leaders and cadres, and a peck from...

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Re-negotiating our freedoms?

Is WhatsApp to blame for the lynchings that have taken place in the country recently? There is no doubt that WhatsApp messages have played a key role in some of the incidents, but how valid...

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On the money: Rahul Gandhi is right in connecting joblessness and national security

Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s recent assertion that joblessness in India is a factor behind the increasing cases of lynchings, and his comparing of this process to the rise of the Islamic State insurgency in Iraq...

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‘Combining profit in pursuit of social goals will unlock a pool of capital that would otherwise sit on sidelines’

V Kasturi Rangan, professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, has researched solutions for the ‘base of the pyramid’. In India recently to deliver classes at Ashoka University, he explains the concept and related issues...

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Aa gale lag ja: India and Pakistan need more not less of jhappiyan pappiyan 😜

When BJP MP, sorry, now Congress minister in the Punjab government Navjot Singh Sidhu hugged the Pakistani army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa he was accused of embracing the enemy. Sidhu made a splash as a...

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Become lighter, simpler, pure, with willpower

By Daaji How many times do we make New Year’s resolutions only to find that a month later our good intentions and willpower have vanished, and we are back to square one? It is a...

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Joint pains: Johnson & Johnson must compensate patients for faulty hip implants

For people suffering painful wear and tear of the hip joint, hip replacement surgery where a prosthetic joint replaces the age-worn one, is usually a great blessing that enhances the quality of life. But if...

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Belling the cat: Rahul compares RSS and Muslim Brotherhood, but can he bring Congress on this track?

Congress president Rahul Gandhi comparing RSS with the Muslim Brotherhood on his visit to England has raised eyebrows. The comparison is interesting. A closer look will reveal that the two organisations do operate along similar...

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