Independent India is 75. Our tryst with destiny has reached an important milestone. We have celebrated this with a till now best medal tally in the Olympics. And the Gold in Athletics caps it. Amrit Mahotsav, then, has well begun. But the path ahead calls for some rethinking. And sports can offer some valuable lessons. We need to develop sportsman...
Ramayana is not just a literary achievement; it is a fountain of heartfelt faith. A stern tale of dharma, it holds out grand lessons for life and society — in India and beyond, writes Dr Pramod Pathak Ram and Ramayana signify many things to many people. With competitive politics getting hotter in Uttar Pradesh, the name of Ram would be chanted and ranted even more...
The problem of evil has confounded the philosophers as well as the commoners alike. Why evil persists in this world created by an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God who is supposed to be benevolent and just? It is perhaps one issue that has given the stick to the sceptics and the agnostics, as also the atheist to beat the believers....
The present time is called the information era. But what is intriguing is that there is no authentic definition of information. Whether there is information boom or information bloom or information bomb that impacts us is hard to explain. Though we believe that we are in the information age, we are not very sure if there is information rage or...
Darwin stands corrected. What was evident has been swept under the carpet. Darwin had propounded the law of natural selection suggesting that the world is a jungle in which there is a struggle for survival. Only the fittest shall survive. But our interpretation of this term fittest was wrong. Corona pandemic has proved that it was the richest who were...
The Covid-19 pandemic has shifted the focus to health. Health was never an individual duty or a part of our daily chores. It was something to be worried about only if a disease or injury struck. Preventive health was seldom focused on. Only exceptions were the childhood immunization programmes. Covid-19 has taught how important internal resilience is. And this internal...
With the second surge of Covid-19 creating havoc, a pall of gloom has descended around us. It is only natural, when no answer is in sight and science appears clueless while governments are helpless. The unfortunate part is that no one knows how long this will persist. While vaccinations do show up as a silver lining, negativities continue to mount...
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