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“Until you become an unbeliever in yourself, you cannot become a believer in God,” said Hazrat Abu Sa’id Abul-Khayr (967–1049), a renowned Persian Sufi mystic. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, our existence often gets limited to our needs, our desires. Our singular focus on the needs of the self becomes the veil…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel marks another chapter in a relationship that has quietly transformed over the past three decades. What was once a cautious and largely low-profile engagement has evolved into one of India’s most significant strategic partnerships in West Asia. The visit is not merely a diplomatic ceremony. It reflects…

India’s GDP is growing as are aspirations of the people. Both require water. And herein lies the challenge of the balance: How to meet increasing demand when water is running out, quantitively and qualitatively? India is one of the top countries at risk because of water scarcity, floods, water pollution and climate change. The multiple…

Teenagers are naturally attracted to foreign cultures, and thus languages. Encourage this  Policy is all very well, but what about pleasure? It gets little mention in politically charged shouting matches about the Centre’s three-language policy, or its heated two-language rebuttals. In all the earnest talk of national identity, competitiveness and cultural preservation, joy barely gets…

India-Israel ties have moved beyond friendship. As they say in Hebrew, sababa – that’s great Think of the relationship between India and Israel like a high-level “group project” between two best friends who are both… Source link

Kyiv: Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a gathering of the Yalta European Strategy here that resolving territorial issues in the Russia-Ukraine war could be left to a direct meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin. Joining online from Washington and touting a possible future trilateral between the leaders of US, Ukraine and Russia, Witkoff asserted that…

Trump recently said Europeans would ‘all be speaking German’ had America not ‘won’ WWII. By oversight or design, he didn’t acknowledge Britain’s and Soviet Union’s big role in wresting Allied victory. Also ignored was the historical context and pillars of US’s postwar might. Emerging from WWII as a global superpower, US needed and cultivated transatlantic…

Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, is a strong contender at this year’s Oscars. It is a heart-wrenching fiction about Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (or Anne), and the event that allegedly inspired the play Hamlet: the loss of their only son, Hamnet, at the age of eleven. Agnes never forgives her husband for being absent…

As India rises economically, its food processing sector must move to create global value – transforming farm surplus to innovation, opportunity and competitiveness India stands at a defining economic juncture. As the nation advances toward becoming the world’s third-largest economy, growth can no longer be measured solely in aggregate output. It must increasingly be assessed…

By Sonal Srivastava In Indic epistemological parlance, abhava , absence, is not a mere void. It is a distinct way of examining reality through the lens of nonexistence. Take, for instance, the air inside a pot. When the pot is merely a lump of clay, air inside the pot is absent but only in a…