The writer is a Vedic scholar and social activist
June 30,2020 00:34:53 AM
Worship must be to spiritual life what breathing is to physical life. Just as there are no middlemen in our breathing -- except the deadly middleman of pollution -- in the spiritual breathing of worship too, there must be no middlemen.
Tue, Jun 30, 2020June 05,2020 20:25:45 PM
Risks born out of squalor of the poor –and its consequent health implications for the rich -- will be addressed post-Covid
Fri, Jun 05, 2020April 06,2020 03:01:00 AM
It is asking us to open the box of our inner lives.
Mon, Apr 06, 2020September 14,2019 00:10:06 AM
How can we create Fit India, the PM needs to ask, if we do not pay at least equal attention to developing an intellectual culture? Medical sciences aver that physical fitness is incomplete without mental and intellectual fitness.
Sat, Sep 14, 2019May 15,2019 03:25:55 AM
Corporates owe banks, and the public, crores. They’re the ones suffering poverty in more ways than one.
Wed, May 15, 2019April 19,2019 00:30:46 AM
Intelligent voters will, given that Modi has failed to deliver on all promises made in 2014, conclude that “crying wolf” about a neighbouring country.
Fri, Apr 19, 2019March 25,2019 01:49:43 AM
Mediators in Ayodhya must stand steadfast on spiritual foundation in a charged atmosphere, where religion has been superseded by politics and the dynamic of mediation overshadowed by triumphalism.
Mon, Mar 25, 2019March 05,2019 01:15:11 AM
Our public life is, increasingly, being configured by fear.
Tue, Mar 05, 2019December 20,2018 00:40:27 AM
Religion and superstition are mirror images. Superstition can, therefore, pass for religion, especially when the people know only rituals and practices — all priestly inventions — and are ignorant of the ethical and philosophical principles embedded in scriptures.
Thu, Dec 20, 2018August 18,2018 00:45:23 AM
My ideal of social justice runs counter to the casteism of Sangh Parivar. But my disagreements are spiritual, not political.
Sat, Aug 18, 2018July 18,2018 00:51:17 AM
Without reason in our religious outlook we let the clergy manipulate us
Thu, Jul 19, 2018June 22,2018 01:10:54 AM
Bhayyuji Maharaj’s suicide highlight pressures that overtake the spiritually inclined
Fri, Jun 22, 2018February 12,2018 01:30:22 AM
I am a man of faith. The cynical political calculation of Ram Janmabhoomi movement is intolerable to me.
Mon, Feb 12, 2018November 17,2017 00:40:33 AM
A sense of justice and fair play demands that unskilled workers are paid at least as much as their counterparts in the organised sector.
Fri, Nov 17, 2017September 23,2017 00:25:20 AM
Light of the Vedas is an antidote to ignorance.
Sat, Sep 23, 2017June 09,2017 00:10:53 AM
To help India, contemporary spiritualism must break the shackles on its own soul
Fri, Jun 09, 2017April 06,2016 23:42:37 PM
What Ramdev has done is criminal. He is sowing seeds of horrendous violence in the minds of unsuspecting people within an ambience of faith. This is incitement of the most dangerous kind.
Thu, Apr 07, 2016February 06,2016 00:05:56 AM
Male-dominated ‘places of worship’ are, in fact, places where god doesn’t reside.
Sat, Feb 06, 2016July 24,2003 00:00:00 AM
It is not my call to defend anyone in particular. But it is certainly my call to defend good sense and fair play in public life. I find it d...
Thu, Jul 24, 2003October 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
It is a great pity that the radical spiritual legacy that Swami Dayanand enunciated as the Arya Samaj movement more than a century ago could...
Wed, Oct 30, 2002January 21,2000 00:00:00 AM
Mushirul Hasan's article ``No Hindu Machismo, please'' (IE, January 12), calls for a clarification regarding references to the Arya Samaj....
Fri, Jan 21, 2000