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Bangladesh: Chaotic crossroadsDespite being entrusted with various reforms, the interim government and student administrators have failed to provide freedom and stabilit...- Rumi's visionJalaluddin Rumi's quote about the unity of different belief systems serves as a reminder to avoid judging others' spiritual experiences. Ru...
- View: Whipping up a digital froth doth not make up for sociopolitical shortcomingsThe budget gambles that the pandemic will retreat in the next couple of months and that large-scale state funding will strengthen recovery,...
- Hindi, non-Hindi bhai bhai: Chill, broThe only way to end the obsession with English-medium education — absent in Germany or Denmark, with widespread English proficiency — is to...
- View: Combating pollution needs no individual heroics, but collective effortPeople will choose to unite, grudgingly, across localities and nations, driven by the logic of self-preservation.
- Bhindranwale to Ram Rahim: India singed by cocktail of politics and religionFollowers of Ram Rahim, whipping up violence leading to many deaths is a warning of this heady yet destructive cocktail that has been perio...
- It's joyful to learn the difference between Kabir in text, song and performance: Linda HessAuthor and academician Linda Hess talks about her latest book on Kabir, how she found inspiration in UR Ananthamurthy and her Bengaluru con...
- Religious tolerance: How to secularise secularismWhen home minister Rajnath Singh says that it is an overused term, and several people nod in sane agreement, the season has surely come to ...
- Congress playing with fire by stoking up communal passions: BJPBJP today alleged that Congress was playing with fire by "stoking up communal passions" by projecting "falsehoods", that PM Modi has been t...
- Declassifying Bose files: Getting ahead on Netaji allows Mamata Banerjee to attack 3 opponentsIn what many believe to be a masterstroke in the runup to 2016 Bengal elections, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to declassify a...
- India, others won't support US if Iran deal fails: John Kerry"They ought to continue supporting the sanctions that are costing them billions of dollars every year? That is not going to happen," Kerry ...
- Shiv Sena view unacceptable, committed to defending rights of all Indians: GovernmentThe government said such suggestions were not acceptable to it and that these "should not be discussed even hypothetically".
- Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s ID test: Can Indian-Americans go all American?In a social context we emphasize language, religion and even caste; in the civic and professional sphere we prefer our Indianness.
- Peaceful protests achieve more than military aggression: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moonHe said that the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, owe much t...
- Barack Obama shows his cards too often in foreign policyMr Obama backs plans to rotate American forces continuously through the Baltic republics. But such promises are rooted in treaty obligation...
- PM Modi's I-Day speech: Strong case for manufacturing, development & hygieneCalling himself the "Pradhan Sevak" (chief servant) of the country, the PM seemed to make a case for economic nationalism with a call to fo...
- India should be wary of conflict spill-over from IraqThere is possibility of sectarian passions flaring up in India, in the wake of protests and attempts to send Shia volunteers to fight in Ir...
- General elections 2014: NC, PDP criticise BJP for 'abandoning' Atal Bihari Vajpayee's pathNC and PDP said that Modi has reneged from the path taken by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee even before he could reach that pos...
- Poke Me: Why Narendra Modi should not become Prime MinisterModi should not become PM, because that would destroy idea of India as a nation that celebrates unity in diversity, where multiple identiti...
- Suicide attack kills five in PeshawarA suicide attacker blew himself up at a Shiite Muslim mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least f...
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