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Pain: A path to transcend

“The wound is the place where the light enters you,” Rumi says! I saw a woman once whose deep eyes were searching for something beyond. It appeared like she had been preparing for an unusual arduous exam for a long time but life failed her time and again. I couldn't m...

Reason against fanaticism

As Voltaire argued two-and-a-half centuries ago, secularism implies tolerance and is, therefore, the way to prevent wars of religion.
Whatever measures are taken in response to this crime must reflect universal values and condemn all forms of incitement to hatred. There can be no question but that the murder of Samuel Paty just outside his school’s gate, because he had given a lesson on...

Re-discovering the J&K Instrument of Accession

On a hot and humid mid-September afternoon, I walked in to the research room of the National Archives in New Delhi to find out if my search for a “historic” document had borne results. The document in question was the original Instrument of Accession (IoA) signed in Oc...

Testing Times..!

Why did my wife go down with the Covid-19 virus? Isolated for fifteen days, initially with a high viral count? Why did God allow this to happen? Such thoughts rankled in me. A few days before the viral attack, a young friend, from another faith had rung me up, “Uncle,...

Tanishq ad row: Trolls dictating the narrative

Way back in 2012 the Singaporean artist and author Jess C Scott wrote "people are sheep and media is the shepherd. This idiomatic expression couldn’t have been more relevant in context with the blitzkrieg of the Internet troll army in India, the monstrous proportions i...

Gap instinct

For Apocaholics that exploit and profit from the natural pessimism of human nature, the population is always the biggest issue facing humanity, though the consumption of the people is the sum of their ‘population’ times the average ‘consumption’ rate per person. Imagin...
 

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