Quote of the Day by Roman astronomer Ptolemy: ‘Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow at my pleasure…’Claudius Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, found solace in the stars. He believed human life was brief but observing the cosmos offered a ...
21 Jan, 2026, 10.59 AM IST
Quote of the Day: ‘Most people do not really want freedom, because…’ Father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud’s take on price of freedomSigmund Freud believed most people avoid true freedom. This is because freedom demands responsibility. People prefer to follow others rathe...
18 Jan, 2026, 12.03 PM IST
Quote of the day by G. K. Chesterton: ‘The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he…’G.K. Chesterton's quote reveals that true soldiers fight out of love for what they defend, not hatred for their enemies. This principle ext...
18 Jan, 2026, 10.01 AM IST
Memorial Day 2025: History, wishes, quotes, and what’s open & closedMemorial Day 2025, observed on the last Monday of May, will see government offices and banks closed, while most retailers remain open with ...
25 May, 2025, 11.39 PM IST
Trump is doing real damage to America that could take a generation or more to repairPresident Trump has caused significant damage to America, akin to the Cold War era, with his actions eroding alliances and destabilizing bo...
03 Mar, 2025, 06.37 PM IST
Why computers lack the one thing humans take for granted: Common senseCommon sense is unusually broad and includes not only social abilities, but also a naive sense of physics.
18 Aug, 2021, 07.04 PM IST
View: Aadhaar isn’t about surveillance, it asserts your individual identityThe problem with the discourse today is that some modern reformists either don’t or don’t want to understand the history and context within...
17 Jan, 2018, 10.28 AM IST
A real watershed in dietary fadsGK Chesterton’s Noah made light of the Great Flood by saying that he didn’t care where the water goes, so long as it doesn’t go into the wi...
28 Dec, 2017, 11.35 PM IST
Affluent Indians opting for unconventional holiday destinations such as Chile, FijiMore than a century after English writer GK Chesterton penned this proverb, the Indian middle-class vacationer, armed with disposable incom...
22 Jun, 2014, 05.45 AM IST
Mousy MoralIn an essay, GK Chesterton makes a comment similar to what GD Birla once said about Gandhi: it took a lot of money to keep the Mahatma in p...
01 Sep, 2012, 05.31 AM IST
- Arabs might be having last laugh after Wall Street protests
Much has been said about the Arab Spring, where mass demonstrations toppled seemingly unassailable dictators. There was some irony in this,...
06 Oct, 2011, 03.53 AM IST
- Morgan Stanley is too cheap to sell
Today, after thousands of layoffs, the firm is re-staffing sales, trading and research, restocking business units it recently downplayed an...
27 Jul, 2010, 03.37 AM IST
Seeing by the light of the treeOne of the reasons science and faith can’t seem to co-exist - despite foundations like the Templeton giving away millions of dollars a year...
21 Aug, 2009, 12.13 AM IST
Gentle into that good nightIf we are to believe people who have had a near death experience, or NDE — and there’s absolutely no reason not to — the most amazing thing...
04 Nov, 2008, 12.00 AM IST