Searched for
CHEATING MYTHS
Quote of the day by Ernest Hemingway: ‘Forget your personal tragedy. When you get damned hurt use it — don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it’; writer of The Old Man and the Sea and Nobel Prize winner, on turning pain into purposeErnest Hemingway's 1934 advice to F. Scott Fitzgerald, urging writers to 'use' personal tragedy rather than 'cheat' with it, remains profou...- Thief or no thief? What cases say about Vijay MallyaVijay Mallya, facing accusations of bank loan defaults, has apologized for Kingfisher Airlines' collapse while denying being a thief. He ex...
- Force multiply, but gradually: Ways to improve Agnipath before rolloutMaking armed forces pension largely contributory, with a possible top-up funded by the budget to neutralise inflation is the permanent pens...
- View: Tech has yet to devise a perpetual motion machine, but Covid has invented a perpetual motion vaccineWhile well-meaning organisations like WHO may wring their hands in hapless dismay at this unending state of affairs, mathematicians and myt...
- Assam consigns rhino horn hoard to flames to highlight they have no medicinal valueIndian laws as well as international conventions forbids sale of body parts, whether of humans and animals, both by individuals and governm...
- Those who cheated farmers for decades spreading lies 24x7: PM ModiHe said when farmers are able to see through the set of lies on one subject, the opposition parties start spreading lies on another subject...
- Flashback 2019: 'Diego Maradona's life is a Shakespearean story, filled with pride and pathos'In this 2019 interview, British director Asif Kapadia recalled his interaction with the maverick footballer while filming 'Diego Maradona'.
- Amul, Britannia indulge in bitter battle over butterAmul claims others are selling oil in butter cookies; Britannia makes cholesterol jibe.
- Lalu Prasad cheated as Bihar CM and rail minister, polls will end caste politics: Manoj Sinha'History will remember Lalu only for Jungle Raj and terror in Bihar for 10 years his claims about a railway turnaround was a myth,'
- Bihar polls: I would request Owaisi to join the Third Front, says Pappu YadavPappu Yadav says that expulsion from RJD was a result of his bitter opposition to Lalu’s dynastic politics and his attempts to expose the h...
- Guj Cong President accuses Anandiben Patel of misgovernanceGujarat Congress President Baratsinh Solanki has urged PM Narendra Modi to shift CM Anandiben Patel to Delhi after accusing her of misgover...
- Section 498A: Has Supreme Court taken a retrograde step by diluting an anti-harassment law?By diluting an anti-harassment law the top court has undone what it had been striving for — making women feel safe.
- Six cheating myths bustedUnderstand the misconceptions about infidelity to deal with it effectively
- Party and Bihar can be run without Nitish Kumar: RebelsThe rebellion against Nitish Kumar intensified on Friday with four JD(U) MLAs saying the party and Bihar could be run even without the form...
- PM's ability to deliver handicapped by party politics, says Jagdish BhagwatiNow thanks to Sonia Gandhi, the party is entirely important and the PM is at the receiving end, says Bhagwati.
- Poke Me: Why India has become a living tragedy of self-delusionA land of myths, India takes mythology rather seriously till some myth-buster jolts it down to reality. Some transformation India needs, a ...
- Government not disclosing names of tax defaulters: Ram JethmalaniJethmalani asked the Government to produce all documents and correspondence for agreements with various countries to bring back black money.
- PM Manmohan Singh, then Finance Minister P Chidambaram decided against selling 2G spectrum licences: DMK MP KanimozhiPM & then FM Chidambaram were fully in loop on 2G spectrum license allocation & had decided along with A Raja not to auction them, said Kan...
- The dubious Dubai effectThe squalid layers of the word Dubai in the Indian collective consciousness is a cluster of Cs: Cash, concrete, construction, cars, cement ...
- From Shivaji to SivajiThis dialogue sums up the latest Rajinikanth-starrer, Sivaji: The Boss. It is also a reflection of the political culture in which the film ...
Load More
