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Pandemic push to micro-insurance

MOIN QAZI The pandemic has been a game changer for microinsurance and people now understand its importance in their lives. This should spur a greater demand for it. In the developed world, insurance is a part of life but its coverage has been patchy and woefully inadeq...

TIME TO MAKE A FRESH START

VINAYSHIL GAUTAM There is often talk of history of the planet and history as a discipline. The bald truth is that most histories are actually recalls of experiences of a limited part of the planet over some limited geography with a given vantage point of perception. Th...

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INSPIRE YOUR CHILD
Without inspiration, no human being rises beyond the limitations in which he lives.” Only when we are inspired, we go beyond and do things that we wouldn’t normally do. Today, worldwide, educational systems have become 100% informative; there is very little inspiration...

TAMIL LANGUAGE IS THE OLDEST LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD

T K NANDANAN According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tamil language is beautiful and it is the world’s oldest language. Modi made this remark during his monthly ‘Mann kiBaat’ address in Hindi in response to a query from a lady in Hyderabad. Praising the Tamil langua...

LESS LIPSTICK, MORE EYELINER: COVID-19 IS CHANGING THE WORLD OF BEAUTY

SHAHNAZ HUSAIN The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the face of beauty with people using this as a time to really care for their skin by experimenting with new products and at-home treatments. By making masks, sanitisers and gloves an indispensable a...

A bleak future without sustainable water resources

SASHIDHAR VEMPALA The farmers’ protest reflects their approach towards securing their future, and soon there would be a solution to that. But there still looms a larger crisis for India and its people, including the farmers. One of the most fertile lands on Earth today...

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PERCEPTION MATTERS …MORE THAN INFORMATION
If all the spirituality that you have gathered is just memory recorded in your head, it is of no consequence, because spirituality is an inner process.” The Vedas are a series of discoveries, both outward and inward. It was the knowledge book of the past in Indic cultu...

INDIA MUST BE PREPARED TO COMPETE WITH CHINESE ELECTRONIC COMPANIES

T K NANDANAN It is not very long since the Congress party led by Rahul Gandhi was trounced in the general election in the country, and in the several state elections too, it lost its power making the Congress too weak. It may be recalled that Rahul Gandhi voluntarily c...

Should the global debt pandemic worry us?

GOVIND BHATTACHARJEE The previous decade saw the fastest increase in debt in emerging economies in the last 50 years. The IMF estimated that global public debt at the end of 2020 would touch 98 per cent of the GDP, and India’s gross Government debt would be at 90 per c...

India needs a standard metric for the social cost of GHG

AMIT KUMAR Actions on the climate change front are again in the news in the US after President Joe Biden took charge. One of his first executive orders pertained to reassembling a federal, cross-Government team to figure out the “social cost of carbon.” So, what is the...

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JUDGING PEOPLE
If you know yourself, you can become very effective.” People think that by knowing other people, or reading their minds, we can be effective in the world. This is not true. If you know yourself, you can become very effective. If you make an effort to read people’s mind...

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MUST NOT BE ACCEPTED

T K NANDANAN It is most welcome that the Centre has submitted a clear-cut clarification on the institution of marriage in the Delhi High Court on Thursday while opposing the same-sex marriage. The Centre said marriage in India is not just a union of two individuals but...

TIME TO TACKLE ONLINE GENDER VIOLENCE

Shruti Shreya | Shefali Mehta The internet has evolved as an indispensable tool for transforming our society and culture. Women, especially those living in rural India, have been empowered to speak about their diverse realities, discuss common concerns and organise for...

TEXAS MUST READ UP ON GLOBAL WARMING

GWYNNE DYER It’s not funny when people die of the cold but there was some innocent amusement to be had from the indignation of Texans unable to boil their drinking water during the ‘Big Freeze’ because the power was still out. Things like that are not supposed to happe...

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ONENESS AND WELLNESS
If your energy body is in balance and full flow, physically and mentally you will be in perfect health.” To ‘feel healthy’ is to have a sense of wholeness within. If we are free of diseases medically, that is not health. If we feel like a complete human being in body, ...

PAKISTAN AND TURKEY COLLUDE TO DISCREDIT INDIA

T K NANDANAN An orchestrated move by certain Islamic nations like Pakistan and Turkey to brand India as a country that suppresses human rights in Kashmir is nipped in the bud by India at the at the UN Human Rights Council where India hit back accusing Pakistan of polit...

Education is not a market commodity

Swapnil Soni / Ganesaraman Kalyanasundaram Unlike other nations, education in India is considered a costly affair. Historically, Government spending in education has been low, with less than four per cent of the GDP spent per annum. This lack of budgetary support coupl...

OUR VERSION OF THE ENABLING ACT

MARKANDEY KATJU On March 23 the German Parliament, the Reichstag, passed the Enabling Act (named euphemistically as ‘An Act to remedy the distress of the people and the State’), which enabled the German Government to issue decrees deviating from the Weimar Constitution...

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YOU MAY BE UNAWARE, BUT KARMA CYCLES ON
Karma is not a law that is imposed from above. It is the natural basis of all existence.” Karma is a term that is featured in every English dictionary today. For far too long, the word has been either grotesquely oversimplified or needlessly mystified. So what is karma...

INDIA GRANTED PERMISSION TO PAK TO OVERFLY INDIAN AIRSPACE

T K NANDANAN As a gesture of a neighbor’s goodwill, India granted permission to overfly Indian airspace for the aircraft carrying Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan en route to Sri Lanka on Tuesday evening. It may be recalled that in 2019 on three occasions Pakistan re...
 

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