Word of the Day: Quiddity (January 21, 2026). Quiddity refers to the essence that makes something what it truly is. Today's Word of the Day...

Truly unpredictable negative shocks are almost a certainty.

The moment I utter the word ‘secular’ in a warm tone, the cyber trolls from Madison Square Garden attack me for being ‘anti-Modi’.

A good whiskey never comes on its own; it can only be invoked, cajoled or coerced to appear.

Bhagvad Gita involves us all Indians and it's a great day for us that Gita issue was taken up so vigorously by all, cutting across the part...

For a city Delhi's age, 100 years is a blip. But the century gone by mirrors all that India's capital stands for — a metropolis that is cha...

Susan Blackmore had just completed UK's first science Ph D in parapsychology when your columnist met the petite scholar in her charming Pea...

Sciences respond to a felt need to understand the world, and religions respond to a felt need for the world to have meaning.

Gujarat governor Nawal Kishore Sharma on Tuesday returned the controversial Gujarat Freedom of Religion (amendment) Bill, 2006, saying the ...