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Quote of the day by Fernando Pessoa: 'We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would... Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is...' - Legendary Portuguese poet's timeless wisdom on the human desire for perfection and the beauty of our flawsQuote of the day by Fernando Pessoa: Fernando Pessoa was a groundbreaking Portuguese writer who delved deeply into the concept of identity ...- Quote of the Day by Fernando Pessoa: ‘Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face…’ – Portuguese poet’s daunting reflection on identity in a mirror-obsessed worldQuote of the Day by Fernando Pessoa: Fernando Pessoa's quote critiques the modern obsession with self-reflection, suggesting it distorts id...
- Lisbon, dinner at seven, and the look of quiet sufferingA Lisbon resident, seeking quiet and on a tight budget, frequented a first-floor restaurant. There, he observed a thin, thirty-year-old man...
- Auto dispatches may hit a peak in October and move to the slow lane soonCarmakers in India have reportedly delivered record numbers of vehicles to dealers in October in anticipation of robust demand. Estimates s...
- Today is Friday the 13th: Why is considered unlucky? Here is all you should knowFriday the 13th, a day associated with bad luck, has various origins and superstitions surrounding it. One belief connects it to the Last S...
- Opposition parties raise questions over UP encounters, SP leader says Atiq Ahmed's son might be gunned downUmesh Pal and his police security guards Sandeep Nishad and Raghvendra Singh were shot dead on February 24 outside his home in Prayagraj's ...
- Natwar Singh defends Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban "The Satanic Verses", cites law & order scenarioWith focus back on Rushdie's book in the wake of the attack on him in New York, Singh, who was the minister of state for external affairs w...
- RBI’s disputed circular cut delinquency: StudyAn internal study by the central bank has revealed that borrower delinquency reduced after the RBI’s February 12, 2018 circular requiring b...
- A Remembrance of forgetting about things past: A look back at Gabriel Garcia Marquez's final yearsGarcia's prose is spare and elegant. He eschews any kind of sensationalism, and the slim book is illuminated by his love and admiration for...
- Sedition law can’t be invoked to quieten disquiet, says Delhi courtThe observation was made in the bail orders of two men, Devi Lal Burdak and Swaroop Ram, who were booked in the same FIR on charges of sedi...
- COVID-19 impact: New Olympic date likely 'this week': OrganisersNew dates for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will likely be revealed this week, organisers said Monday after the coronavirus forced the hi...
- Manohar Parrikar rakes up Aamir's controversial remark, dubs it 'arrogant'Parrikar was speaking here after releasing the Marathi version journalist-author Nitin Gokhale's book on Siachen.
- JD(U) meet at Nitish Kumar's house, Bihar CM Manjhi meets BJP ministerChief Minister Manjhi had an hour-long meeting with Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Sanitation Ramkripal Yadav.
- Why long-term investors should believe in Infosys CEO Vishal SikkaCompany's bonus issue shows new CEO willing to address disquiet over unutilised cash pile & he seems to be geared to take other challenges.
- Strange clauses that shipping companies have in their contractsWhen researching for cases relating to delays in filing of FIRs by police, one came across strange cases where transport companies were tak...
- Educomp corporate governance practices under question by equities research firm Espirito SantoThe equities research arm of a Portuguese investment bank has raised doubts about corporate governance practices at India's largest digital...
- Pilots' strike: Air India stops international bookings till May 15Aviation minister Ajit Singh, who will be briefing PM Manmohan Singh on the AI crisis on Friday, maintained that pilots must first resume w...
- Life, according to Jose SaramagoJose Saramago excoriated the greed-and-grease worshippers in all his narratives, fictional and non-fictional.
- A singer of divine tunesIn his Journal of Disquiet, Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa confesses that he “cultivated hatred of action like a greenhouse flower”. That ...
- Obama to bat for strong Indo-US tiesObama has said he will build a close strategic partnership with India.
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