“Just Do It”: Why Some Bosses Shut Down Your ThinkingAuthoritarian managers can trigger an "obedience trap," causing workers to freeze and their thoughts to disappear due to perceived threat. ...
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Book of the Day: On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia — A stark portrait of punishment and the fragility of humanityBook of the Day: On Earth As It Is Beneath stands as a stark, disciplined exploration of power and vulnerability. It does not seek to enter...
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Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: 'Start with what is right rather than…'— Top quotes by the Absurdist fiction novelistQuote of the Day: Franz Kafka's enduring quote challenges societal norms and encourages moral integrity over conformity. His writings, ofte...
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When billionaires speak of AntichristVenture capitalist Peter Thiel provocatively compares those who fear technological advancements to the Antichrist, perceiving tech as a tra...
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EU's von der Leyen confronts new no-confidence challengesEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faces no-confidence motions. Hard-right and left groups in the European Parliament have ...
06 Oct, 2025, 10.18 PM IST
Seoul spy agency warns N. Korea plotting attacks on embassiesSouth Korea's intelligence agency warned of potential "terrorist" attacks by North Korea targeting South Korean officials and citizens abro...
03 May, 2024, 02.01 PM IST
View: Aging parents as cost centreWe live in times where the most successful mangers are graduates of engineering and business schools - institutes that value measurement ov...
02 Sep, 2023, 12.15 AM IST
Why China’s young people are not getting marriedNow, as she sees rising layoffs around her in a troubled economy, she wonders if her job is secure enough to sustain a future family. She h...
10 Jul, 2023, 09.20 PM IST
Special report: How torture, inaction underpin UAE's thriving sex trafficking industryThis story is based on interviews with 25 African women, mostly from Nigeria, who described being lured to the UAE by Gold or other alleged...
12 Jun, 2023, 05.00 PM IST
Lower self, higher selfThis lower self may dominate us often; but it is a tiny pathetic thing. When we sit in meditation or enter into the depths within ourselves...
25 Aug, 2022, 12.39 AM IST
How Coronavirus is shaking up the moral universeCovid's a test, too, in the strength of the ideas humans choose to help them form moral judgments.
30 Mar, 2020, 09.21 PM IST
Enjoy the wintry high of the Harz mountains in GermanyThe Brocken and the Harz Mountains were inspirations for the writer Goethe , who set one of his famous scenes in Faust there.
19 Jun, 2016, 11.33 AM IST
What is behind PM Narendra Modi's wax appealA few days ago, all the papers carried pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi submitting to a 360-degree examination of himself, for an u...
27 Mar, 2016, 10.41 AM IST
A quiet democracy?The current government under PM Modi continues to act on the first front but is there even an attempt to deliver a new kind of democracy?
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- Much is at stake in China’s epic power struggle
If China is to preserve its rising strength, it must avoid a political hard landing. Although it is difficult to predict China’s political ...
10 Jun, 2012, 05.36 AM IST
- How austere on austerity?
Austerity in public life is merely the practice of a little restraint by people whose actions are in public domain.
01 Jan, 2011, 06.11 AM IST
- From Shivaji to Sivaji
This dialogue sums up the latest Rajinikanth-starrer, Sivaji: The Boss. It is also a reflection of the political culture in which the film ...
30 Jun, 2007, 04.08 AM IST