Opinion

Shifting Focus: Beyond High-Profile Cases, A Broader Crisis of Abuse

03 Oct 2024 02:41 AM IST

The recent rape and murder of a young doctor in Kolkata has once again ignited national outrage, as protests and demands for justice sweep across India. The brutality of this crime has understandably shaken the country’s conscience, thrusting the issue of sexual violence into the spotlight. However, while it’s necessary

Silent healer: Meditation and its effects on treating substance abuse

02 Oct 2024 03:16 AM IST

Addiction has become a public health crisis today, affecting millions of lives worldwide. Synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl have worsened the concern, leading to devastating consequences. According to a WHO report, 80% of drug-related deaths in 2019 were linked to opioids, with 25% attributed to overdoses. While traditional treatment methods

Listening to conscience seems Rahul’s mantra

02 Oct 2024 03:13 AM IST

Veteran Narain Dutt Tiwari had a dictum, “Suno Sabki karo apni” [ listen to every shade of opinion and do whatever you want]. Years later, Rahul Gandhi has started practising Tiwari’s maxim. The selection of new Youth Congress chief to replace an overage B V Srinivas gave a glimpse of

National Impact of Assembly Polls

02 Oct 2024 03:09 AM IST

The Congress seems to have the edge in the Haryana assembly polls and is going all out to capitalise on it. This is one reason why Rahul Gandhi launched his Vijay Sankalp yatra in the last four days of campaigning. The fact that he began it from the sitting CM’s

Gandhi’s Impact pans across world

02 Oct 2024 03:05 AM IST

Gandhiji is a goliath in today’s India. He was declared the man of the millennium. The father of the nation shares his birthday with another great son of the soil, Shri Laal Bhadhur Shastri. That his ideology is still relevant has been illustrated here. Gandhian principles don’t seem relegated to

The Courage to Be Our Authentic Self and the Price

01 Oct 2024 00:51 AM IST

The famous yet melancholic Czech-German writer Franz Kafka, who struggled with his own identity throughout his ephemeral life, once said, “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.” This profound statement, born from Kafka’s own inner turmoil, resonates deeply with a universal human fear – not of

Nasrallah was a terrorist ideologue, not a saint

01 Oct 2024 00:48 AM IST

In one of the most daring anti-terror operations the world has ever seen, Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu wiped out the entire top leadership of the Hezbollah, including Hassan Nasrallah, the terrorist body’s secretary general, last Friday, on 27 February. However much the efforts to normalise and legitimize Nasrallah as a

Effects of Linguistic Intolerance on National Integrity

01 Oct 2024 00:42 AM IST

Recently, Bengaluru has experienced a notable increase in language conflicts, which has been intensified by a recent social media post. A woman expressed disapproval of Swiggy’s failure to employ delivery personnel who speak Kannada, therefore igniting a renewed contentious discussion over language preferences in Karnataka. Her comments have intensified the

Priyanka recalls Indira’s Kashmir Connect and Martyrdom

30 Sep 2024 01:55 AM IST

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has over the years, acquired the skills to communicate with the masses, with a strong underlining political message. It was no different when while addressing her first rally in Bishnah Assembly segment in the Jammu district on Saturday, she recalled how five or six

Revival of Saarc: Bangladesh’s diplomatic push with help from Pakistan, but India stays distant

30 Sep 2024 01:48 AM IST

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), once seen as a promising platform for fostering economic and social growth among its eight members, has been largely defunct since 2014. Now, a fresh effort by Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus, is attempting to breathe new life into the

Legality of Bulldozing and Rule of Law

30 Sep 2024 01:42 AM IST

The nation has been witnessing a frenzy of demolition drives for the past few months. What started in Uttar Pradesh a few years back has now spread to Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, where communal flare-ups were followed by demolition drives. It also reached the national capital, where municipal officers started

Atishi Uses Hindutva Card To Counter BJP

28 Sep 2024 01:49 AM IST

In an obvious attempt to put the BJP on the defensive, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh has invoked the Ramayana while setting the narrative for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Soon after taking over, she decided to sit on a separate chair adjacent to the one occupied by Arvind Kejriwal