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Quote of the day by Herodotus: “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” Learn the profound lessons on wisdom, powerlessness, destiny, human emotions, and the harsh reality of life from the author of The HistoriesQuote of the day by Herodotus: The powerful Herodotus quote, “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this,” still shapes modern wisdom disc...
India has control over its destiny: James A Robinson, co-winner of Economics Nobel 2024In a thought-provoking conversation with ET, Nobel Prize winner James A Robinson delves into the essence of national success and failure, i...
Chinese balloon saga is part of a long history of US-China tensionsThe Chinese origin of the first flying object - defended as a meteorological balloon by China, an explanation that was met with scepticism ...
View: What differentiates a patriot from a fraud nationalistLove for one’s nation must mean love for its people. Those who don't understand this are fraud nationalists.
Nothing can be said about our army, they’re above criticismWhy should retired soldiers insist on getting what retired teachers and clerks and postmen do not?
So who is an Indian? The answer, my friend, is on your thaaliIdeally it should be: Indians are all who say they are Indians. But we live in a time when there is an insistence on sharpening identities
Dear Shashi Tharoor, the fault was not in the Raj, but in ourselvesTharoor sought reparations for the Raj. These being mainly moral reparations, yes, but coming out of a conviction that the Raj was a very b...
The real Greek tragedyWe did everything for the world. Why then, do the bankers of the world, the wretched ingrates, harass Greece?
Fear not the lightTHE memorial plaque on the monument at Thermopylae bears a simple epitaph. Come and get them! That was the Spartan response when Persians a...
- The lions' range
Blazing heat, temperatures soaring to almost 40oC... We had been roaming the Gir forest, the lion’s domain, for a good three hours without ...