He left this world a broken man and his last words, ‘He Ram’, were both an invocation to his God and a regret for having birthed a nation that forsook his most basic lessons of Truth and Non-violence
He left this world a broken man and his last words, ‘He Ram’, were both an invocation to his God and a regret for having birthed a nation that forsook his most basic lessons of Truth and Non-violence
Pakistan by their use of war imagery and India by their petulant antics have let cricket down
Dame Jane Goodall’s entire life was taken up by the most difficult job in the world — understanding and protecting the wildernesses and wild denizens of Planet Earth
The pursuer must constantly endeavour to develop and keep his faculty of reasoning sharp
The postal system has seen several changes, but there are so many memories attached
Weird dictums regulate the membership of various clubs
‘All the Way to the River’ is perhaps her boldest work
On his birth anniversary, it is fitting to recall not only the image of Bhagat Singh walking to the gallows, but also his voice, his message
After every setback, language must carry out its mandate to speak into the future with hope and resolve
The extraordinary coat of arms of Undivided Punjab in the dining room of Himachal’s Raj Bhavan is believed to have been done under direction of the College of Arms in London
From symbolic suggestion to representation as a human being, what began as an abstract philosophy took almost god-like form
In this world of money wire transfers, who cares for a handshake!
Such was the quotient of human brotherhood and contentment that even kids neither cried nor squabbled
The spirit of the people who were working at shoring up dams, saving fellow human beings and animals, and providing food and necessities to the displaced arose from the Sikh ethos that are deeply entrenched in the people of Punjab
The decadent lives of Nepal's rich lords and their chiffon-clad ladies go back a long, long way
Do citizens have no right to information? Is public scrutiny a wrong expectation?
Dowry deaths are society-enabled femicides. Women are burned, poisoned, hanged, or pushed off balconies, while we debate “misuse” of laws
Top cricketers willing to endorse anything and everything for money must differentiate between greed and need
Have our methods of dealing with exacerbating disasters altered in any way since the time we were colonial subjects?
A just war is essentially a defensive war. It is not a preemptive war
As the Dalai Lama says, in these trying times, compassion is a necessity and not a virtue. But there is the harder teaching too, that our actions have consequences beyond our intentions
Urdu writer Joginder Paul’s birth centenary: He passed away in 2016, leaving behind a throbbing world of characters and incidents in the parallel world of his fiction
Our pride in our own mother tongues is a romantic yearning
Ageing is never a singular story. It can be indignity or dignity, loneliness or companionship
The cure to ego is humility, a powerful force that comes from truly following the Guru’s teachings, meditating, and performing sewa
No two people can be as different as these Indian cricket team coaches, yet there are underlying similarities
The flavour of the season is citizenship, something we thought had been decided 75 years ago by a liberal Constitution
In my wanderings over the hills and after visually dissecting the garbage that one sees blocking streams and rivulets, there are a surprising number of shoes
Buddha revealed: where there is life, there is desire, and where there is desire, there is suffering
Cynical opinions on how degraded our leaders are or how the dignity of institutions has been stripped can’t dim our pride in Independence Day