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Epic love poetry of the day: ‘Love is a fire that burns unseen, a wound that aches yet is not felt, an always discontent contentment, a pain that rages without hurting’. Portuguese poet Luís Vaz de Camões on chaotic loveLuís Vaz de Camões, Portugal's greatest poet, masterfully captures love's paradoxical nature in his sonnet "Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver...- Is 'patient-centredness' becoming a sarcastic oxymoron, like 'business ethics'?Hospitals often tout being 'patient-centered', yet bureaucracy stresses both patients and their attendants. Without accessible clinical out...
- How to cover tracks by virtue signallingCharles III of not-so-great-anymore Britain, for instance, has mastered virtue signalling over decades as an 'environmentalist' and plant a...
- Speaking Tree: Using silence to converseSilence, often viewed as an oxymoron to conversation, holds profound wisdom, according to Ramana Maharshi's quote, "Silence is also convers...
- Why the self-help book is an oxymoron and won't help you with your new year resolutionA self-help book can aid New Year resolutions, yet the term feels oxymoronic. Many books claim universal applicability, ignoring individual...
- Why Stablecoins are an oxymoron to their nameA Stablecoin is a popular form of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a constant value through a peg to another asset. In 2022, the cumulat...
- European Union says has no option but to talk to Taliban"The Afghan crisis is not over," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
- Culture and CommunityThe Muslim world, for its part, is equally quick to take Western actions out of context: there are those who may be profitably reminded tha...
- Reaccommodating a new word orderThe incident gave Indians a glimpse of the flip side of what can happen when airlines put their employees before passengers.
- Ache in India: More toilets are odorableGetting rid of Delhi belly will take time, but we could cover it up in other ways.
- Independent directors are becoming important catalysts in good corporate governanceThe new Companies Act has several additional provisions regarding independent directors, but is term independent director itself an oxymoro...
- Do gooding as policyRenowned as the Ethical Warrior — an oxymoron to Pacifist ears — Bhishma saw purity as being inseparable from his core concept Dharma.
- 'Hindu nationalist' is an oxymoron: Khurshid to Narendra ModiSalman Khurshid today took a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for describing himself as "Hindu nationalist", saying it is an oxy...
- Broadcast sector: Information and Braodcasting Mininstry for dedicated 'techno-commercial' regulatorManish Tewari said he felt that the TRAI which currently serves as the broadcasting regulator was not originally supposed to carry out this...
- Internet cannot co-exist with the concept of governance: Kapil SibalA new cyber jurisprudence, having no political boundaries, needs to be evolved to deal with Internet crime, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal sa...
- Bring electronic, social media under us: Press Council of India tells GovernmentThe Press Council of India has urged govt to carry out necessary amendments to bring electronic & social media under its purview.
- Wash-and-tellBe careful of your bais these days, as you never know what dirty linen they may wash in public once they are done scrubbing yours in the pr...
- EU believes in oxymorons, good Taliban & may be Santa Claus tooEU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner discusses a range of issues, from the Af-Pak situation and enhanced counter t...
- Healthy scepticismOxymoronic phrases reflect the contradictory nature of society; and at no time does it become more apparent than during a crisis.
- This one's for Indian business: ChidambaramThis award of business reformer is the invention of the fiction team. What is a business reformer?
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