The sea is the meaning
A Sufi master once said that the traveller should not speak about his spiritual experiences, since that will decrease their effect on his heart and detract from his truthfulness with His Lord in them....
View ArticleThe road to safety and security for migrant workers
The migrant crisis during the Covid-19 lockdown was a wake-up call for policy makers that certain long-term and systemic practices and approaches need to be adopted for internal migration in the...
View ArticleThe glory & significance of Kumbh Mela
Building upon my previous write-up, “Miracles of Kumbh,” it is worth recalling that the Maha Kumbh occurs after 12 Purna Kumbhs, i.e., once every 144 years. In 2025, this significant event will unfold...
View ArticleWell done, Musk
Stargate’s under a cloud, Indian netas should also be more upfront about investor summit MoUs Elon Musk, master of rocket flying, has called out Trump’s other friends for kite flying. Shortly after...
View ArticleFashion and b-i o
Changing styles in everything from clothes to cars is what keeps the wheels of commerce spinning At first I thought it was a case of mass somnambulism, people walking in their sleep. Men and women...
View ArticleFish ♥️ human
Animals, like us, feel lonely & need comforting. A Japan aquarium discovered this That there is a loneliness epidemic across the human species is widely accepted today. Research into it has gone...
View ArticleFish ♥️ Human
Animals, like us, feel lonely & need comforting. A Japan aquarium discovered this Imagine a lonely fish in a Japanese aquarium who missed visitors so much that it stopped eating! When the aquarium...
View ArticleWell done, Musk
Trump’s chum has cast doubt on the mother of all AI projects, Indian netas should also be more upfront about investor summit MoUs Elon Musk called out a big problem with promises of massive AI...
View ArticleSustained effort: The true path to success
By Sivakumar Sundaram The subject of work – How much? How long? To what end? At what cost? – has been doing the rounds for a while now. While there are multiple sides to every...
View ArticleWhy it’s so fracking hard to make big oil drill
“Drill, baby, drill” became a Republican slogan in 2008 when US oil production slumped to 5mn barrels a day – half as much as in 1970. Michael Steele coined it, Sarah Palin embraced it, but...
View ArticleWill 2025 be Modi’s 1991 moment?
Trump’s return is widely seen as disruptive. He did not disappoint, signing a rash of executive orders on Day One of his second term. Some of these will face legal challenges. But many will survive....
View ArticleWill you stand tall like Saif Ali Khan or be left cringing when faced with an...
Sometimes just one night ends up unveiling so many people. Why a night, at times just a moment is enough to reveal the real you — beyond all perception, beyond veils and even self-deception. You...
View ArticleWhy wait for 2047 to get viksit? Let’s turbocharge India now!
Why wait for 2047 to become a Viksit Bharat when we can achieve it a decade earlier? Why settle for a steady, sleepy, unremarkable 7-8% growth rate when we have the potential to turbocharge it...
View ArticleWhy are NT-DNT communities still excluded from education?
The lack of documentation, social discrimination, policy failures, and government neglect are some of the barriers that NT-DNTs face in accessing education. Nomadic tribes (NT) and denotified tribes...
View ArticleOutage of intelligence
That homo sapiens had already given up taxing their natural intelligence was no more a newsworthy occurrence. No, the newsworthy story of the day pertained to the outage of ChatGPT. And since people...
View Article90 hour sounds wise or otherwise
In recent months, a heated debate has emerged in India’s corporate corridors. Some top industry leaders have controversially endorsed the idea of working 90-hour weeks, dismissing the value of personal...
View ArticleTurbans/Tricolour
Makeover for headgear associated with luxe Indian experience SOBO to Soho, enter a luxe Indian store, and a turbaned gent shall be at your service. As was the case with the iconic and retired Air...
View ArticleArticles of freedom
Court response to artworks reminds us what’s constitutional Art gallery DAG, from whose exhibition two MF Husain paintings were seized following a plea in a Delhi court alleging ‘religious sentiments...
View ArticleAll together now, for your future
Elites are suspicious of crowds, which are often forces of reform Crowds have a bad reputation. Watching the crowds at Bastille, French thinker Gustave Le Bon cast their behaviour as madness, a loss of...
View ArticleArticles of freedom: Defending art and free speech
A gallery in Delhi, called DAG, had two paintings by famous artist MF Husain taken by the police after a complaint was made saying the artworks hurt religious feelings. The gallery says the complaint...
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