Ram Dass: Quote of the day by Ram Dass: “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is”; What the Harvard psychedelic and Neem Karoli Baba follower advises on accepting life as it comes

Ram Das was a Harvard psychologist, a psychedelic, and a follower of Neem Karoli Baba, who brought the concept of spirituality to the Western world.He weighed in on the idea that we have lost track of the idea of patience, and that we desire everything to turn out in a certain manner, just as we…

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‘Killed her, took bank card, put body in a suitcase’: Chilling details of the murder of aid worker who helped refugees in Greece, Afghan building cleaner arrested

26-year-old Afghan man arrested on charges of murdering British woman Elisabeth Ross in Greece where Ross used to help migrants. Two weeks after 38-year-old Elisabeth Ross was found stuffed inside a suitcase in central Athens, police arrested an Afghan suspect over the death of the British woman who was an aid worker who used to…

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Message In A Ballot

Prashant Kishor’s first election win is a big moment for his new party. The Bankipur bypoll could send an important message to Bihar’s leaders. By-elections, or bypolls, don’t always follow a fixed pattern. But often, the party that runs the state wins these smaller elections, especially if the same party is also in power at…

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Free is the most expensive word in public policy: Nageswaran

CHENNAI: Flagging that “free is the most expensive word in public policy”, chief economic adviser (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran said infrastructure built on the promise of free or below-cost services cannot attract patient capital. “What makes infrastructure worthy of patient capital? There are three conditions: quality infrastructure, contract certainty, and policy certainty. And the fourth, which…

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