10 ways to calm down

We all are human, and it’s in our nature to show emotions. Emotions can be of any type, from laughter to anger to crying. When a person is highly emotional, his/her thinking gets affected, which...

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Two Indian women artists at Frieze, Seoul

With COVID-19 restrictions loosening worldwide, the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul ( Sep 2nd-5th,2022 ) will see a deluge of events, gallery openings, and late-night excursions that reflect the vibrancy of the capital’s arts and...

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Digitalization revolutionizing agriculture sector

Technology has found its success in many aspects of modern business today, from finance to supply chain management. However, one area that technology is yet to fully integrate itself into is agriculture. As a vast...

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High drama

‘As you like it’ is the drama where Shakespeare’s Famous quote: “Life is a stage and we are all actors” features.  Yes, I liked it: the entire process of Drama. I have a striking similarity with...

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Bird on a rail: She came seeking shelter but I had to fly away

I turned to shut my Mumbai bedroom window and found a tiny bird shivering on the rail seeking shelter from the driving rain. She and her mate were regular but always fleeting visitors on my...

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Prepare yourself for the inevitability of death

By Hindol Sengupta When George Harrison died in 2001, only 58, at his bedside were disciples of Bhaktivedanta Swami, Mukunda Goswami and Shyamsundar Das, reading verses into the ear of the dying singer of the...

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Pragg-mentation: How India’s latest chess wunderkind is different from his peers

You know a star has arrived when chess analysts take care to pronounce your full name carefully and correctly, and commentators respectfully want to know the meaning of the vibhuti mark on your forehead (it’s...

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The United States of Abyss

He could have called it a rift. Or divide. Or even a great divide or cleave. Maybe even a chasm if the cleave was so wide. Instead, he went for abyss, which is a bottomless...

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Is Devas ruling a pyrrhic win?: Delhi HC nixing arbitration award helps but questions will persist on India’s approach to investment treaties

The Delhi high court set aside the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration award in favour of Devas Multimedia on August 29. The court found the arbitral award untenable on various grounds. This was however...

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Help Pakistan: India must be generous in sending aid and via the land route. It’s also smart strategy

PM Modi has offered to help flood-devastated Pakistan and this is exactly what GoI should do. Pakistan’s military-intelligence complex is up to no good, but the people of Pakistan need help. Large swathes of northern,...

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Killer on the road: Road fatalities are going up because users don’t take basic precautions and road design is poor

With 2021 logging the highest ever count of road fatalities – 1.56 lakh deaths – the awful prospect of these senselessly tragic deaths repeating in greater numbers in coming years looms large. The grim number...

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The many challenges of governing India: Key policymakers NK Singh and PK Mishra have written an insightful book on the dos and don’ts

How does the will of the people translate into action? In a fast-changing world, how should the few acting on behalf of the many organise themselves so they respond with speed and effectiveness? How does...

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Pioneer price: When we are the first to get something new, we have to pay a lot for it

The early bird is said to get the worm. But sometimes the worm turns round and gets the early bird, otherwise known as a murga. Bunny and I felt like a couple of murgas the...

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Let’s welcome Ganesh, the epitome of wisdom

By P Lakshminarayanan Ganesh is the elephant-headed god of Hindu mythology. He is the eldest son of Shiv and Parvati. His large head symbolises wisdom. Once when he and his brother were given a challenge...

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India, accidently yours

A jumbo jet crashed into a street in India today, killing all 426 passengers on board. Another jumbo jet is expected to similarly crash tomorrow, killing another 426 people. And another one day after with...

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What BJP learnt from Congress: All parties manipulate community sensibilities for electoral gains, all govts game the Constitution

In the first half of his article, ‘What BJP can teach Congress’ (TOI, August 29), Hilal Ahmed rightly argues that BJP is pushing its political agenda by creating new ideas about India, while Congress and...

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Fed & all the rest: Financial market volatility will remain. Interest rates should not be used as all-purpose blunt instrument

Global financial markets yesterday experienced sharp volatility following US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell’s take on inflation last week. He said that restoring price stability will take time and Fed would need to use its...

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The real crime: Unless criminal codes are reformed the justice system will remain overwhelmed

NCRB’s latest Crime in India report for 2021 is another iteration of the dismal story of justice delivery. A rise in serious crimes hasn’t been accompanied by proportionate systemic upgrades. From 2020 to 2021, kidnapping...

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Guardian of football or its problem? Fifa’s suspension of AIFF shows it doesn’t want players to influence the sport’s administration

On August 15, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) was suspended by the global governing body for football, Fifa. The rationale was that a temporary Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the Supreme Court constituted...

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Where’s my bag?: So many emotions chase each other as one waits at the airport baggage carousel

If you ever want to witness the delicate balance between hope and despair go stand at an airport baggage carousel. The track is still and there is this desolate wilderness feel about it. One man...

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Be in a state of constant flux to evade boredom

By Sumit Paul There is a famous observation by British writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley: ‘Every individual is eventually a bore.’ It’s not a particular person who’s boring. We all tend to lose our novelty...

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The coterie culture deja vu

Ghulam Nabi Azad resigning from Indian National Congress is too little too late for him to reclaim credibility or for the party to redeem itself. Citing 2013 when Rahul Gandhi was inducted as the starting...

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Work graph: A decade-defining opportunity

Imagine you took a trip but had no map or directions for how to get to your destination. Lost in a vast landscape, you may eventually get to your destination by trial-and-error, taking several wrong...

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Future imperfect: Gloom and doom over loom

To save khadi and handloom, it first needs to be rescued from Swadeshis and Socialists The usual homilies are being spun around khadi on the occasion of India’s 75th Independence celebration, with paeans about the...

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Your daughter’s rapists have been set free and garlanded

How would you feel if you were raped? Would you feel violated? Brutalised? Traumatised? Okay! How about if you were 21 years old, five months pregnant and were gang raped and had to watch your...

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Hic, hic, hiccups! Why liquor reforms in India are so complicated

The political histrionics over Delhi’s now-scrapped liquor policy have reached a crescendo over the last couple of weeks. Even as the investigations began, campaigns on group messaging services declared this policy a scam because it...

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Azad’s exit suggests a deeper crisis brewing in Congress

In the last two years, many senior Congress leaders have left the party one after another, most of them blaming Rahul Gandhi’s style of leadership as the reason for their exit. There is always a...

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Compassion catalyst could catapult colleagues to true team work, propel performance

Since the Supreme Creator has blessed human beings with virtues like ‘sympathy’, ‘empathy’, ‘compassion’, et al, for the noble purpose of peaceful and significant coexistence, a caring communication also enables two individuals as well as...

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Four of the biggest trends in resort wear right now

With the travel industry booming and exotic holiday destinations back on our radars, you might have booked yourself a summer beach vacation – be it Goa, the Maldives or the South of France. After this...

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What responsibilities and functions in C-suite will change and grow over the next few years?

Conventional roles and responsibilities of the C-suite are no longer as relevant for today’s ever shifting business environment as it was pre-pandemic. While the pandemic has played a crucial part in redefining these roles, the...

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Four powerful characteristics of a leader

I always insist youngsters aspire and become a leader, not a manager. Merely managing the given job role is a managerial value, while creating something significantly enriching within the given resources is a leadership trait!...

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Nitish Kumar: A case of gaining and losing political capital

Edward C Banfield, a distinguished American political scientist, who also worked in various high profile capacities in the US political establishment, introduced the concept of Political Capital to the realm of political theory. In his...

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Status and status quo: Retired judges get too many freebies. Sitting judges admit too many cases about pigs, chappals, ludo …

Bibek Debroy and Aditya Sinha This is the second article in an occasional series on legal reforms There is a 1958 Act on salaries and service conditions of Supreme Court judges. Other than salaries and...

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The simple truth: The way Indian state communicates has no resemblance to how Indians communicate. This must change

The Supreme Court’s call for “brevity, simplicity and clarity”, while setting aside an “incomprehensible” judgment of the Himachal Pradesh high court, should apply not just to the judiciary but every arm of the state. The...

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This doesn’t pay: Labour code must let go of rule mandating minimum 50% of salary to be basic. It will help no one

The two-day National Labour Conference to facilitate the rollout of the four central labour codes began yesterday. The four codes covering wages, social security, industrial relations and working conditions were cleared by Parliament between 2019...

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Tackle the four Trojan horses of inequality: The pandemic has widened the gap between haves and have-nots, solutions need to be reconfigured

Persisting and increasing inequalities have been a defining feature of our times. French economist Thomas Piketty in his seminal work Capital in the Twenty-First Century has postulated that inequalities are here to stay as they...

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Electric shock: If you try to empower yourself, make sure you don’t get more power than you bargained for

A year ago Bunny and I decided to empower ourselves, literally. We invested what for us is a fairly large sum of money in installing 16 solar panels on the roof of our house. We...

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Step aside to make room for others

By Janina Gomes Lolly Daskal, a leadership coach, tells us about a world-famous violinist who once said after a successful performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto, “I have a beautiful score, a lovely violin and a...

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Why young Indians are adopting health foods as a lifestyle practice

It is a known fact that today, majority of millennials in India prefer wholesome foods to high-calorie junk food. Though the demand for natural and organic products was growing steadily even before the pandemic, Covid-19...

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Building the customer, communication and commerce synergy with conversational AI

Customer is the king and that continues to be the truth, more so in today’s digitally connected world. According to a report released by KPMG, improving customer experience (CX) is key to sustained value creation with...

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Grains of transformation: One-Nation-One-Ration-Card is a tool for wider empowerment, says commerce, food & public distribution minister

A silent revolution is sweeping the country, providing nearly 80 crore Indians the unprecedented empowerment of food security – the freedom to buy heavily subsidised grains from any fair price shop (FPS) in the country....

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Water of India: Poor rainfall in east is a reminder on conserving a scarce resource by changing cropping patterns

China’s southwestern regions battled fires this week following a severe heat wave, putting their autumn harvest under pressure. Europe last month experienced heatwaves and wildfires and further west, the US government has for the first...

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Taj for all: Online-only bookings for the much-visited monument will keep aam Indians out. Digital can’t be a dogma

A big, bad change is afoot at India’s biggest tourist attraction, with ASI planning to shutter ticket windows at Taj Mahal, leaving visitors no way in except online bookings. But have the wizards who came...

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Law’s clear: SC can revoke remission orders – Bilkis case decision open to legal scrutiny. Strong court precedents on quashing questionable calls

By Naveed Mehmood Ahmad & Ayushi Sharma Last week, the Gujarat government released 11 convicts serving life imprisonment in a case of multiple murders and gang-rape of a 21-year-old pregnant woman, Bilkis Bano. They, however,...

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Raj Kaput: What we got and giving back to our former rulers 😊

Our present leaders are more obsessed with wiping out an earlier empire (along with a later dynasty) so, other than dismantling Macaulay’s ‘babu-creating’ education system, there’s some respite from the ‘Tharoorymple’ brand of Raj-bashing. However,...

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Universe is not run by God, it’s on autopilot

By Hasmukh Adhia Spirituality is a search for answers to basic questions such as: Who is Ishwar, God, and what is this jagat, world? Vedanta philosophy has an explanation for these. God is supposed to...

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What India needs for cervical cancer elimination – Gender-neutral HPV vaccination

While there may be a number of urgent public health issues that India needs to address, there is no doubt whatsoever that cervical cancer ranks among the top three. Not only is cervical cancer elimination...

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Ransomware’s favourite target needs a new security approach

Launching ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure is a hot favourite amongst cybercriminals because of its effectiveness and return on investment. Threat actors understand the critical role industrial control systems (ICS) play, especially the adverse impact...

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Everything you should know about workflow automation

It’s no secret that companies lose billions of dollars yearly to inefficiency. It has been estimated by the CMO Council, an organization dedicated towards helping businesses improve their marketing capabilities through research and data analysis,...

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How experiential learning is changing the landscape of higher education

Every year, millions of students graduate, but only a small percentage are hired by reputable organizations. Organizations are experiencing shifts in talent needs due to rapid technological advances. According to a NASSCOM report, India is...

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The secret trump card in the hands of entrepreneurs making a comeback against all odds

Business failures, especially in the real estate development sector, are not new news. Several builders fail to ride the tide after registering losses amidst difficult market conditions – evident in the statistics released by an...

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The Savarkar controversies – Time to set the record straight

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has been in news once again in last few days because of his 51st death anniversary on 14th August 2022. Savarkar and controversy have always gone hand in hand and it has...

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Pill pushers: Dolo PIL another reminder of dubious doctor-pharma relationships. Generics can minimise the problem

A PIL in the Supreme Court last week by the Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives Association of India has again put the doctor-pharmaceutical firm relationship under scrutiny. FMRAI alleges gifts were the catalyst for...

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Death by pothole: Those responsible for these avertable tragedies never get punished. There’s a way to change that

Among many reasons India ranks the worst in road deaths worldwide, perhaps the most wretched and shocking are potholes. This form of civic dereliction of duty is almost unique to India – the phrase ‘pothole...

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At 75 India needs to make health a habit: We must reorient public healthcare investments and create healthy, livable cities

On the 75th year of India’s Independence, the health of our nation does not look good. The scourge of infectious diseases has hardly waned, and non-communicable diseases like asthma, heart disease and diabetes are now...

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Very filmi turn: How very hard the lives of Hindi movie moguls have become 😊

Say I am a Bollywood movie mogul. Life used to be great once. And that was when we would get phone calls from Dubai ka don, have to pay extortion money, and even then have...

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Neurology of compassion and empathy

By Deepak Ranade  The human brain is programmed for and capable of subtlety, nobility and benevolence. It has a centre that bestows a unique and divine attribute to man. A neural substrate that generates and...

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What goes behind India’s massive mobile application market?

India is the third largest smartphone market in the world today, with about 250 million active users. Over the last few years, India has seen a major boom in mobile applications because of market penetration,...

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Gandhi or not: Congress getting serious about its 2024 game has to begin with electing Sonia’s successor

Yesterday the process for electing a new Congress president got underway and if everything proceeds as per schedule, the party will anoint Sonia Gandhi’s successor by September 20. Since she first took over as Congress...

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Spend it, hide it and forget about it: States don’t reveal true freebie costs. Only transparent budgeting will put pressure on them

  This is the final column in a three-part series Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen – Narcissism of minor differences – is Sigmund Freud’s remarkable hypothesis that people in adjoining areas who are very alike...

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Grandparents, refugees: Partition stole their wealth but not generosity

What do you say to someone who has turned 75? Rejoice that you have come this far and relish the rest, I suppose. My grandfather Kishan Chand Dhawan would have approved. He was always one...

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Spending your time alone, creatively

Those who are terrified of being alone – without someone next to them, or without e-devices and other external aids – are perhaps missing out on one of the most creative and delightful opportunities that...

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China’s Sabre-rattling Against Taiwan: It’s more sound and fury, but the international community must prepare for contingencies

China has continued to conduct military exercises around Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island nation earlier this month. In fact, that visit was followed by another American congressional delegation touching...

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Bengal shows war on corruption is a national imperative

There were multiple factors that contributed to the emphatic mandate that Indian voters gave to Narendra Modi in 2014. The drift, incoherence and allegations of venality that tarred the reputation of Manmohan Singh’s second innings...

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Is nostalgia making a phool out of you?

Can I have Maggi tonight?’ my daughter asks me as she leaves for her math tuition. That yellow packet with its red logo has an inexplicable power over me. When I look at it, I...

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India@75: Tracing the colonial hand in evolving water tapestry

Within a year of its independence, India turned off a tap. The Indus water partition had left India in possession of the Ferozepur headworks that controlled the Indus water that fed Pakistan’s fields. Friction over...

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Reconsidering personal finance decisions amid spiralling inflation

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree, a long time ago” – these words of wisdom by Warren Buffet aptly summarise the essence of personal finance planning, especially the power of...

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How skill-based ed-tech trends are bringing in a paradigm shift in higher education

Experts concur that new technologies such as Data Science, Cybersecurity, AI & ML, as well as relevant skill-based tools are the future of building a strong technology infrastructure to entirely transform the higher education sector...

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The workplace of the future: mobile, flexible, secure and hybrid

Jolted by Covid-19, the future of work mobility has arrived earlier than expected. We have proved that flexible work patterns can be successful, so creating permanent workspace mobility will be the next frontier. The persistent...

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Intelligent automation: The next step towards making technology more productive

The cardinal focus of every business is to boost productivity, increase revenue and streamline operations, three things that are imperative to sustain in today’s highly-competitive landscape. Over the last few years, many companies have accelerated...

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Your best friend forever

This incident happened three years back. That day Laddu Pinto was seemingly depressed. Anyone could make out that he was going through some stressful circumstances. At first, I thought, I must not trespass his rights...

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Is there a perfect time to hang up one’s boots?

Recently, a good friend of mine turned 56 and retired from the Navy after 35 years of service. He decided to mark the big moment by penning a note titled ‘Retirement ahoy’. At around the...

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IVF to make a comeback post Covid-19

What is IVF? In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a series of complex procedures designed to improve fertility, avoid genetic problems, and facilitate conception. The most successful assisted reproductive method is IVF.  As part of the...

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Article 370: Three years hence, the valley in the wake of special status revocation

Three years ago, the month of August saw the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which stripped the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir of its special autonomous status and applied the...

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Edtech-based learning can give a new direction to the traditional mindset about career and growth

India is a knowledge-based economy and has been making concerted efforts to take the educational system to greater heights. The demand for tech-savvy skilled talent is at an all-time high with the growth in young...

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Managing the prospect pipe: Planning a smooth sales run in a lean economy

Today’s global economy is characterized by conflicting strains and pressure being applied on it by several factors. Even as inflation continues to rise, wars and political disturbances have far-reaching impacts on continued demand and stability...

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How dynamic QR codes are driving digital payments across businesses

The Digital India campaign continues to transform the payment ecosystem across businesses. Over the last year, the use of digital payment has grown significantly. Gradually, people are letting go of traditional wallets. In the wake...

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Chinese model with Indian characteristics: Modi government seeks to replicate the spectacular success of the Deng playbook

India under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership seems to be following the policy playbook set by China’s Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s when he argued that China’s future, both at home and abroad, would be...

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Freedom of impression: SC’s proposal to put a limit to vote-catching handouts has drawn flak from certain circles

Two critics of the Supreme Court’s proposal to set a limit on what are popularly known as freebies doled out by candidates before polls are a pair of politicians called Aaya Ram and Gaya Ram....

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Celebrating the charioteer who gave us the Gita

By Radhanath Swami Every year, countless devotees of Krishn eagerly await the blessed day of Janmashtami, the day when the Divine appeared on this earthly plane some five thousand years ago. Janmashtami is especially spectacular...

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Eat, sleep, PR, repeat because we’re giving out the coolest PR trends that you cannot miss

Public relations professionals have a significant impact on a brand’s online reputation. Good public relations help you promote and protect your brand’s image. And, by implementing the right PR strategies at the right time, you...

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Upcoming innovations that will impact children’s education in future!

Technology has shaped lives of billions of Gen Z students and it is going to impact their lives even after the school life. Nowadays, Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are using technology for generating interest among...

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Advantages of starting franchise education business in India

The franchise business is not a new concept in India; it has a decades-old legacy. For ages, big brands in all segments have thrived with the help of their franchises. The segment was flourishing and...

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Error of remission: Gujarat government had more than enough grounds to not release Bilkis case convicts

Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission of sentence to 11 lifers convicted for mass murder and gangrape in the Bilkis Bano case raises several questions. True, this May the Supreme Court had ruled, without going...

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Soldiers, the silent partners of Indian democracy: Armed forces played a vital role in early nation-building but now must transform to meet new challenges

Over the last 75 years, India has acquired the tag of being a responsible, restrained and, at times, a diffident power when it comes to the application of military force as an instrument of statecraft....

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Freedom in ship-shape: Celebrating independence in the land of our rulers

It was good to be away from the OTT rah-rah, blah-blah – and nah-nah – back home. Even better to celebrate 75 years of Independence from the Raj in London itself. That too at a...

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Birthday on which we celebrate conscious living

By P Lakshminarayanan We know our body, mind and intellect, but we do not know our essential Self. Krishn represents our true nature, our real Self, the pure Consciousness. The celebration of Krishn’s birthday is...

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Improved security situation in Jammu and Kashmir

The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has been suffering from terrorism since 1989. Terrorism marked its arrival by carrying out a series of blasts in the Kashmir region in 1988. It subsequently expanded to...

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How Artificial Intelligence is altering the way businesses operate in India

Not too long ago, AI was largely just a buzzword. But today, we are right in the middle of an already unfolding story of how AI is altering the business and technology landscape across industries. ...

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A true master focuses on your state of being

By Swami Sukhabodhananda One has to understand the distinction between a master and a teacher. A teacher is interested in giving information, while a master works on one’s transformation. A teacher is one whose knowledge...

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Global trends for ESG investment

Markets are now accepting that conventional investment instruments are not efficient enough to put sufficient emphasise on environmental and social impact of any organisation. As concern about the ethical status of companies is increasing, both...

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Work from home – A new normal to SEZs

Recently the government permitted work from home for Units in Special Economic Zones (SEZs). This was a much required and welcome change considering the current scenario where companies are struggling with high attrition rates and...

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Whither Multilateral Trading System – Part-III

Future World Order and India’s place in it According to several global financial institutions, India’s GDP will be the world’s third largest by the end of this decade. London-based IHS Markit, a global leader in...

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US FED and Indian Equity Markets

There is a huge amount of interest across the globe in the actions of the US Fed. Every word either spoken or written by Fed is analysed threadbare and rightly so. After all, it is...

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Maha games begin: Cabinet done, BJP-Shinde’s first and crucial poll test will be civic polls. Unity is MVA’s first challenge

Maharashtra’s cabinet expansion took six weeks of negotiations – and BJP, unsurprisingly, has key portfolios. Though nine ministers from both sides were sworn in, plum portfolios have gone to BJP, in line with its strength...

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India’s I-Day celebration is too boringly sarkari: We should learn from Americans how to make it a fun party instead – of the people and by the people

When we turned on the TV first thing yesterday morning, we witnessed Prime Minister Modi unfurling the Tricolour from the ageless ramparts of the Red Fort. Right under the lectern from where he addressed the...

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Chatty laddie: What do you do when your neighbour on the flight is a doctor?

So I find my aisle seat on the plane and the man in the window has his face buried in a book and he is clearly not one of those chatty types you get on...

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Turn attention inside to change your destiny

By James Anderson The moment we turn our attention inside, we start changing our destiny. This is the first step in yog. The soul always prompts us to live inwardly and reject the trappings of...

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India@75 — a different way of looking at Hamara Bharat Mahaan

Couple years ago, I posted some of photos/maps and asked friends to identify them. Some did. As you can see, the first one is the map of the Indian subcontinent — seen upside down. There...

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My Indo-Pak identity – A cherishable affair

Recently, my emotions linked to Pakistan, which I usually conceal masterfully, were stirred up when some students while discussing chartbusters in the class, excitedly talked about Coke Studio’s ‘Pasoori’. The song had gone viral after...

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Not a first division but a high second: The hits & misses in our 75-year journey

India’s 75 years of Independence are replete with major achievements but failures too. Compared with several other developing countries, India falls short of a first division on most counts but merits a high second division....

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How advertising held a mirror to India where change was the only constant

There are many mirrors in which we can see our evolution in the 75 years that have gone by since Independence, and advertising is a particularly interesting one. For it tells us stories about how...

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Taiwan: Why India shouldn’t get involved in US-China tensions

The barrage of Chinese warnings and missile drills that followed Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei has set the stage for the next chapter in Asian geopolitics. Although seemingly milder than its prequels in the 1950s...

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1947, 1971, 1990: Many partitions, and their pain

How we speak of the past determines how we think of the past — and keeps us, sometimes, from seeing both the past and the present. Ask anyone about the ‘Partition of India’, and they...

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Why Partition feels so potent and personal even 75 years later

For the better part of the last decade, I have travelled across South Asia and its diaspora, interviewing survivors of the 1947 Partition. Stories of violence and betrayal, othering and blame, pain and despair were...

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Technology has both enabled and impeded trafficking of humans

While information technology offered solutions to the problems created by Covid-19 pandemic like sustaining business, communication, governance, education, essential service and effective Covid management among others, it also provided inconspicuous means for human traffickers to...

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Seeking secondary care surgery? Six points you must remember

Every year, more than 20 million surgeries are performed in India, and of this, around 80 per cent fall under secondary care. Unlike many western countries where healthcare providers maintain an uniform healthcare delivery across...

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Punishing process: Supreme Court bail for Varavara Rao again raises questions for the justice system

In granting permanent medical bail to Varavara Rao, the Supreme Court has made it clear that stringent restrictions against bail in laws like UAPA don’t hinder constitutional courts from protecting fundamental rights. Last year, SC...

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Hold J&K polls soon: Delay in full resumption of political process may have serious security ramifications for the region

The Election Commission’s decision to push back the publication of final electoral rolls for J&K assembly polls by a month not only keeps democratic politics in the Union territory in a limbo, it also has...

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China may stay in 2020 Covid timewarp till 2023: This means damage will keep spreading, real estate debt defaults will hurt local govt budgets

Singapore’s Changi airport is back in business. Bali is enjoying poster revelry with the upcoming G20 summit. The streets of Hanoi are also celebratory, as the Asean Plus Police music festivities showed. Japan has entered...

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World of worry: We need to have something or other to fret about all the time

The cyclopean eye of the air purifier in our living room at home stares at me reproachfully. In machine body language it seems to be saying “Why are you ignoring me totally?” We bought the...

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Why should we learn Sanskrit today?

By Vivek Desai Sanskrit need not be dismissed as another classical or even dead language, just chanted during religious rituals but having no practical use. A closer look at Sanskrit sheds light on its value...

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State of opposition: If 2019 is a guide, wins & losses of opposition in states may not add up to anything substantial nationally

With Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav assuming office again, the opposition earned its first political breakthrough in 2022. It has been a year where BJP’s hold over politics has intensified. It won elections in UP,...

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Spot the obscenity: A university that fires a professor for a private photo in a swimsuit, teaches very twisted lessons

Arbitrary misogynistic diktats by khap panchayats are painful enough, but it’s truly scary when the very institutions that are supposed to build modern outlooks follow suit. A professor at St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, has found...

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‘In LS polls in Bihar, BJP led by Modi will have the edge … in 2025 state polls, BJP will find going very tough’

 Bihar politics witnessed yet another midcourse change with chief minister Nitish Kumar dumping pre-poll ally BJP and switching sides to the grand alliance camp led by RJD. Nawal Kishore Chaudhary, former dean at the faculty...

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Two ‘A’s and one ‘Z’ for Azadi: It’s time again to check what has and hasn’t quit India

You know that a national anniversary is approaching when the ‘Sale’ ads and netas get louder. This time more so since we are celebrating 75 years with rah-rah, wah-wah and a goose-bumping label, Azadi Ka...

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Festival of destroying vices, earning virtues

By Brahma Kumari Asha Raksha Bandhan,which literally means ‘bond of protection’, is celebrated on full moon day, in the month of Shravan. There are several mythological references to Raksha Bandhan. Once, there was a 12-year-long...

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Katha Upanishad on Nachiketas’ tryst with death

By Pranav Khullar The dialogue between Nachiketas and Yama in the ‘Katha Upanishad’ takes one directly into an awareness of the mystery of life and death, and the compelling need to search for the inner...

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Analysing visit by Pelosi to Taiwan – Part-I

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, an island that China claims as its own on 2nd of August, 2022. By doing so, she became the highest-ranking elected US official to visit the self-ruled island in...

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Data science and its relationship to big data and data-driven decision-making

Businesses in virtually every industry are focusing on data exploitation to gain a competitive edge, thanks to the volume of data presently available. It has become more difficult to analyse large amounts of data manually...

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Cybersecurity trends in medical crowdfunding

In recent years, the digitization of the healthcare system has increased the prevalence of cyberattacks given how sensitive medical information and data can be profitable for cybercriminals. A study observed a 37% increase in cyberattacks...

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You can bring luck by putting your wall clock her

Time – the most valuable of all assets – has predominant significance on life, culture, religion, and even existence. Since the invention, wall clocks have adorned homes and served its purpose of keeping everyone aware...

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GDP and our judges: Courts are intervening in economic policy matters in a way that’s costing India big

A Supreme Court bench recently proposed that an expert committee of Election Commission, Finance Commission, Niti Aayog and RBI officials alongside political representatives must look into the economic impact of freebies doled out by governments....

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On track for more?: CWG medals tell a good story. But tougher events will need more cash, commitment & mental training

Most Indians had never heard of lawn bowls, India certainly had never won in it. Now, our women’s team has delivered a gold and the men’s team a silver, and this is just one of...

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Talk for India: PM, CMs must meet regularly. It will help solve issues like resource sharing. Politics shouldn’t be a bar

The seventh governing council meeting of Niti Aayog was held on Sunday. It was the first in-person meeting since the pandemic’s outbreak and was attended by 23 chief ministers. PM Modi led the GoI contingent....

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China exercises around Taiwan were a total failure … Beijing has understood Taipei is not alone’

Shen Ming-shih, research fellow and director at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defence and Security Research, spoke with Rudroneel Ghosh, about China’s military drills: How do the PLA’s recent drills affect Taiwan’s long-term security calculations? This...

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Tax is like love: First it entails sacrifice, second you never really know whether what you are doing is right

I was shocked to hear our honourable finance minister giving a statement in Lok Sabha that there will be no GST on crematorium, funeral or burial services. Wait, what? Death and taxes we know are...

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Like a candle, burn to show light to others

By Haji Syed Salman Chishty It was on the tenth day of Muharram that Hazrat Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was martyred by the army of a tyrant, Yazid. This tragedy shook the Islamic...

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Freedom festival

Indian Calendar is filled with festivals. The first half is relatively sparse though we have a steady stream of celebrations for Sankranti (various regional versions), Holi, Baisakhi, Regional New Years, Buddha Purnima and others. After...

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Deception during 1971 War: Case of a brigade that was not there

Deception in wars is an old strategy or tactics. Since human beings began to use sticks and fire, one group has always tried to find a way to deceive the other to turn the tide...

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End uncertainty around Art 370 at the earliest

Article 370 of the Constitution guaranteeing “special status” for Jammu and Kashmir was nullified by Parliament on August 5, 2019. It has been three years but its fate is uncertain, with petitions challenging its constitutionality...

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PMLA verdict reverses legal doctrine, makes jail the rule

Last week, I congratulated the Supreme Court in the Mohammed Zubair case for castigating police misuse of procedures to penalise free speech. Alas, its verdict upholding the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) will encourage...

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Time to remove Pakistan as an idea from Kashmiri minds

There is one thing we must understand about counter-insurgency in Kashmir at this moment: every young man who has picked up a gun or is about to is under the watch of security forces. They...

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Roti, makaan but no kapda? Getting to the bottom of Ranveer row

The first nudist colony in the world was reportedly based in Thane in 1891. At The Fellowship of the Naked Trust, clothes were not allowed, though you were kindly permitted to wear your eyeglasses and...

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Data protection Bill wasn’t perfect but new one shouldn’t be opaque

India is the second worst-hit country by data breaches, and the third most impacted by network attacks. There has been increasing disquiet amongst Indians around both private sector data practices and government data collection, with...

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Ranveer Singh’s bold photo

Ranveer Singh’s bold photo’s sparked off a series of predictable and unremarkable reactions. Whether photos are sexy, sensual or sexually expressive and whether they are naked or semi-naked, they will trigger the ire of people...

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Flying the tricolour: Don’t let the rules take the joy out of it

As Independence Day nears and the official Har Ghar Tiranga campaign gets louder, the ‘I love the national flag more than you’ variant of politics is also moving into higher gear. On top of this,...

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How you feel hinges on where you belong: Emotions depend on the culture that shapes us

Happiness, sadness, disgust, fear and anger are hardwired in all humans, the social psychologist Batja Mesquita used to think. She no longer believes this. Her book, Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions, shows how our culture and language...

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Why are many Hindus eschewing liberalism?: Civilisational anxiety. But they must remember that Sanatana Dharma is intrinsically pluralistic

What is a ‘liberal’? I asked Google Baba. He answered that a liberal is one who ‘respects or accepts behaviour or opinions different from one’s own’. Next, I asked Swami Webster. He told me that...

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Have you ever wondered who you are?

By Jaya Row The Bhagwad Gita gives insight into our personality. The various aspects of our inner working are knowledge, action, actor, intellect, consistency and happiness. Each of these can be sattvic, pure; rajasic, passionate;...

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Indie musicians setting new standards / rules in India

Since the beginning of 2020, independent artists in India have been active and inactive, changing at each stage and leaping over rapidly disintegrating stepping stones as if they were in a video game. The development...

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You cannot be good all 365 days

Laddu Pinto was one of the senior members of a particular community. He was known as a man of patience and compassion. He used to conduct meditation camps for young and old in the city....

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Not for courts: Sops for voters are a matter between politicians and people. SC has many other pressing tasks

The Supreme Court has decided it wants to rid Indian politics of the freebie culture. Respectfully, this is well outside SC’s remit. Even when SC’s proper remit is concerned, justice delivery and interpretation of the...

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Add to the act: Collection, storage of data on personal identifiers by law enforcement needs many safeguards

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act came into force yesterday. It received presidential assent on April 18. It sets out the terms under which the police can collect information on an individual’s identifiers. In keeping with...

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Why critics of Article 370’s nullification are quiet today: Their inability to criticise the government with any intensity follows from the Constitution itself

On the third anniversary of Article 370’s extinction, an almost total silence reigns over this long controversial article defining Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India. This is not surprising since Indian controversies tend to receive...

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Nude dudes: Ranveer Singh’s dare-to-bare pix might well inspire others to follow unsuit

Two Dilliwalas, Paploo and Taploo, discussing the social media storm created by Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh posing for pix in the raw. Paploo: Ranveerji is a very clever fellow. He’s made himself even more famous...

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Three things that prompt us to speak, write & act

By KV Raghupathi  Three things prompt us to speak and write: first is the intellect, the second is imagination, and the third is Prakriti. It has taken millennia to transition from instinct to reason, a...

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Analysing BJP President J P Nadda’s observation about the future political scenario -Part I

Recently J P Nadda, BJP National President’s observation that in future there will be no challenge to BJP at the national level has led to an uproar in the political circles. His observation is said...

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Jawed Habib writes: Home tips to stop hair fall

Hair loss is becoming a common problem these days. Losing 50-100 hair strands is considered normal, but more than that is definitely a matter of concern. There are many reasons for hair fall like poor...

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Why does Beijing bristle so much? Pelosi’s Taiwan trip wasn’t a provocation to China, and it increases Indo-Pacific security

The message from Taiwan is clear: Facing an unprovoked and heightened military threat from China, it won’t back down. That’s why Taiwan welcomed Nancy Pelosi. Taipei read it as a great show of support in...

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The Nancy effect: Xi has compulsions to respond. But huge escalation against Taiwan unlikely. Upgrade New Delhi-Taipei ties

Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has added a new strategic dimension to north-east Asia. Taiwan, a self-governing, vibrant democracy of 23 million people, is on the frontline of facing China’s growing belligerence in the region....

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Sober liquor policy: Delhi shows why all states need smart alcohol regulation and 100% private retail trade

Delhi’s retail liquor trade is in chaos, thanks to AAP government’s policy flip-flop. A new policy introduced in 2021 that saw state withdrawal from the retail trade was characterised by e-commerce-like discounts but also litigation...

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‘Some in US seek to contain China by using Taiwan … US govt connived with Pelosi … China will not sit idly by’

Sun Weidong, China’s ambassador to India, spoke to Sachin Parashar as Beijing continued to respond strongly to US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan: How will China react to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan? Pelosi’s...

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Leaping flame, bonding faith: On its 175th anniversary a fire temple binds tighter an outpost kaum

Last weekend in Secunderabad, the sacred and the secular blended together in the fragrance of sandalwood and biryani aromas. The Seth Viccaji-Seth Pestonji Meherji fire temple turned 175, and the descendants of its founding brothers...

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Guru can show you the straight path to happiness

By VS Krishnan In the midst of darkness, there is only one who can provide the light, and lead us to our destination. He is the Master called Guru, who helps the individual to distinguish...

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Battling the crisis well: From rupee to inflation to deficit, the India story is much better than pessimists suggest

Not since World War II has the global economy suffered such a long period of uncertainty, which started in 2020 with the pandemic and intensified with the Russia-Ukraine war. How has India coped? Not badly...

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Auction action: Telcos are also thinking of 4G while planning for 5G. Lower reserve prices would have helped them & GoI

Spectrum auction for 5G services concluded Monday. The big picture is that 71% of the spectrum was sold for Rs 1.5 lakh crore, which can be paid over 20 annual instalments. Three features of the...

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Many mini Qaedas: Zawahiri’s elimination is good news. But terrorism has morphed since Osama-Ayman days

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s assassination in a US drone strike in Afghanistan demonstrates that the American war on terror endures. Zawahiri had moved to Kabul after the Taliban takeover last year. He was finally targeted...

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What GoI can do for a quick 5G rollout: Temporary customs and GST exemptions for network equipment and spectrum will really help

Half the world has launched commercial 5G services with over a billion users. India is the latest entrant. So, how soon can we get a 5G network and what will it mean for us? Shorter...

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Don’t forget, you are not your shadow

By Swami Chinmayananda Due to ignorance, man identifies the Atman, the Self, with the anatman, the not-Self. You are the infinite, immortal Spirit, but as a result of the misunderstanding that you are matter, you...

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Pelosi’s Taiwan Touchdown: A welcome move that all democracies must support

In what can rightfully be termed as a historic visit, US House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, touched down in Taiwan today as part of her Asia tour. For days now the US and China...

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The First Citizen

Where the first citizen is not spared for her gender what can lesser mortals aspire? President Draupadi Murmu has been facing a barrage of criticisms since she was proposed to become the first citizen of...

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Rupee: The real story – India’s currency is strong and stable. Economists who said otherwise should have known better

Round numbers are important for stock-taking, and for journalistic points of reference. Consider the flurry of angst, debate, consternation and speculation about the rupee having touched (and briefly crossed) Rs 80/$. The value of a...

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Too few taxpayers: I-T returns numbers remind us again how narrow the tax base is. More tech, fewer exemptions are needed

GoI’s social media posts said that 6.7 million income tax returns had been filed till 11pm on July 31, an hour before the deadline. To put that number in context, there are 617 million individuals...

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Where’s that law?: India still doesn’t have data protection rules, even though data sharing is set to go up massively

Five years after the Supreme Court ruled the right to privacy as fundamental, we still don’t have a data protection law. Such a law is urgently needed to clarify ownership, storage and processing of personal...

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GoI is for open & trusted internet for digital nagriks: ‘India’s model will never ever be the walled-off big-state model of China or even Russia’

With India awaiting a data protection law and issues such as data sovereignty and localisation coming to the fore, Union minister of state for electronics and information technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, spoke with Sanjiv Shankaran, about...

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On the panda’s trail: If you can separate it from the rabbits, it may tell you who you are, the true you

I have delusions over optical illusions. I can’t go to a search engine without being kidnapped by one of these images. There is this panda frolicking in a sea of rabbits and now I must...

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May all creatures everywhere be happy

By Mata Amritanandamayi From the most venomous cobras to harmless little water snakes, you find an entire array of snakes in India. Snakes play an important role in balancing the world’s ecological system. Sanatan Dharma...

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