Opinion
N. Raghuraman's column: Be disciplined or spend more on bad habits, your decision is yours.
At 4 a.m. on Monday, I left my building for my regular milkman flight (Al Samabh). The watchman of the building—who is always asleep and has to be awakened to open the inner gate of the wing—was on the alert today. He also said good morning to me. I was surprised. On the way to the airport, I asked the driver why he looked so happy today, had he been warned by the security supervisor? The driver smiled and said, "No sir, he has stopped watching movies on mobile." This answer took me back to a flashback to 2016, when a mobile company promoted what I call digital socialism while making the i
Pt. Vijay Shankar Mehta's column: Another use of meditation is to remember ancestors
When consciousness is alone, meditation takes place. And if consciousness becomes attached to Maya, we get entangled. In the Ramkatha, the king of birds was entangled in Garuda like this. He cut Ramji's bond during the war, so he felt that he had done a great job. But he got upset. So Devarshi went to Narada and told his doubts - the desperate went to Devrishi Pahi. If you have doubts in your mind. Then Narada had said that Garuda, the Maya of Shri Ram is very strong. I have also been made to dance by this Maya many times. Be careful and go to Brahma ji. Now it indicates that if we live in the
N. Raghuraman's column: When fatigue becomes happiness, we feel that sacrifice smells in success
It was raining on the night of July 27. A family of eight had come to the house that morning and a great fear was running through their minds. The roof began to leak. The elders burnt straw to keep insects and snakes away. One member rushed to the corner where the pots were kept—so that a pot could be placed under the leaky roof. An infant, unaware of the sudden inconvenience of moving from a pucca house to this hut, was sleeping in a swing made of his grandmother's tattered sari. The child will now grow up in the same hut for the next two years until the construction of the nearby municipal
Neerja Chowdhury's column: Efforts are on the move to reach out to a wider section
The three-day meeting of the coordination committee of all RSS affiliates, including the BJP, has begun in Jodhpur. The aim is to strategise for the future and assess the emerging situation after Mohan Bhagwat's efforts to reach out to a wider audience. BJP president JP Nadda is also joining it. During a recent three-day lecture series held at Vigyan Bhawan to mark 100 years of the organisation, the Sangh tried to change its image and reach out to its critics. It also made it clear that the next phase of the Sangh would be a big outreach programme – so that more and more people would accept
N. Raghuraman's column: Anyone can be a good teacher for anyone.
Dear Nina, Alex taught us all a lesson in humanity today. In class, she told how some boys in the colony stopped her from playing with the son of a colony garbage collector. "We are the people who create the garbage every day and that little boy's father helps us clean it up. He asked the other students, "Can you imagine that if they do not clean even for a day, how will our houses start rotting?" Then he proudly said that my mother has told me this. Thank you for giving your child such strong values. His words and actions reflect your kind and affectionate nature. Today Alex told us that ever
Manoj Joshi's column: Tariffs imposed on us because we challenged Trump
Why has India-US relations reached their lowest point? There are many ideas behind this. The first is that America was really upset because of India's purchase of oil from Russia. But it is a well-known fact that under the Biden administration, India was encouraged to buy oil from Russia within a fixed price frame so that oil prices could be stable. It is also clear that China is a much bigger buyer of Russian oil and has not been punished so far. The second theory says that the US wants to make its agricultural and dairy products accessible in the Indian market. Obviously, the Government of I
Barkha Dutt's column: When is marriage the primary goal for girls?
Why do parents force their daughters to return to abusive, abusive and unhappy marriages? Why is there an insistence that girls get married and then retain it at all costs? Why do at least affluent parents agree to give cars, cash and gold to buy their daughters' happiness? When will we stop making marriage a primary goal for women? Girls brought up in a culture that is always more prone to violence and abuse, with a greater priority being given to finding a good guy than a better job. We have all seen this in the case of the tragic death of 28-year-old makeup artist and content creator Nikki
Valay Singh's column: Police unable to tackle cyber crimes
How to deal with cybercrime? The police modernization budget of 12 states is zero. Only 2% of complaints have a chargesheet. In this monsoon session, the MPs raised the problem of increasing cyber crimes seriously. According to the India Justice report, more than three dozen questions were asked. The question is, how much preparation do we have to deal with them? As the use of digital technology has increased, the rate of cyber crimes has increased much faster. According to the online platform 'National Cyber Reporting Platform' (NCRP), there has been a 900% increase in cyber crimes between 20
N. Raghuraman's column: You know how the world is running convenience stores with 'instanticizing'
In many parts of the world, convenience stores are shops where you buy kitchen and personal grooming items, in addition to laundry and soda. Cigarettes are also available in select places. But in South Korea you can also buy single malt whiskey, French wine worth 700-900 dollars. If you think there's anything new in it, wait. You can recharge mobile phones, buy televisions and even 24 karat gold bars. These stores don't stop there. As a customer, you can sign up for a debit card. You can dine at the bar serving 200 types of instant noodles. You can do a lot of other amazing things. These store
N. Raghuraman's column: Lack of SOPs is the weakness of most of us
LUCKNOW: A couple was killed in a massive explosion at a firecracker factory in Behta village in Gudamba area of Lucknow on Sunday afternoon, police said. At least five others were injured, two of them with 70% burns. The explosion was so massive that five nearby buildings collapsed, two of which turned into rubble. The sound of the explosion was heard up to two km. Is it rocket science for the municipality and neighbours to find a firecracker factory operating in a residential colony? Not at all. But our attitude is 'nothing will happen'. Due to this carelessness, there are big reports in the
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