Two wise men have a little chat on Iran’s Hormuz toll Socrates meets Trump in the street… Donald, you’ve been a father five times? “Yes.” And what did fatherhood teach you? “To keep at it, hehe.” No, I meant, did you learn something about responsibility? “Does it look like?” I’m not making myself clear, perhaps….
When seismic tremors crack open the earth along the Hindu Kush Himalaya, when cyclones churn through the Bay of Bengal, or when monsoon-driven floods swallow entire districts of the Sahel, the victims share one cruel commonality: they live in countries that have contributed the least to the planetary emergency that spawned those disasters. It is…
Suvendu Adhikari is a rare politician who has demonstrated humility, ideological commitment, an unapologetic stance on Hindu assertion and a vision for moving forward. Although I have never met him, I feel he is the rightful inheritor of Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s legacy. Many may not remember that the first-ever government with a saffron coalition, known…
Injury is depressing. Arthritis is highly depressing. Most are not fatal to our lives or to our joints. Here is our approach. Injuries from sports and activities are unexpected. Arthritis is usually a slow onset. Both can interfere with your life, and neither is fun. How fast we shift from depressing to something else determines…
Spiritual life demands patience. In an age that seeks immediate results, the inner journey often suffers from haste. We wish to experience devotion quickly, attain realisation quickly and arrive at the Divine without fully preparing the heart. Yet the path toward Shri Krishna unfolds gradually. Like nature itself, devotion ripens in its own season. The…
The NEET paper leak has produced the usual Indian cycle of outrage, denial, committee formation, televised indignation, and eventual philosophical resignation. One more scandal joins the great national archive of things that “should not have happened,” but somehow did, under the benevolent supervision of authorities who assure us that everything remains under control, except perhaps…
Following a protracted struggle, extensive surveys conducted over a long period by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and lengthy legal arguments, the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh high court finally ruled that the Bhojshala in Dhar is a Sanskrit school (temple) built by the Parmar ruler King Bhoj, and that Hindus possess the right…
It must have been an exhilarating and liberating experience for Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra chief minister, to ride a bike to work. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call to cut down fuel consumption in all forms has struck many a politician to devise new ways to commute. These demonstrations of sensitivity to the need of the…
If Hitler told you a good joke, would you laugh? It’s an uncomfortable question, one that makes us squirm a little. After all, who can laugh with a monster? But what if the joke was really funny? What if it appeared in a book many years after his death? Would the joke still work? The…
Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering the just-concluded Trump-Xi summit, the renewed focus on Taiwan, Russia’s large-scale attack on Kyiv and Ukraine’s response, the collapse of the Latvian government due to a drone incident, and the elimination of the Islamic State terror group’s No.2 in Nigeria. So,…