With the onset of winter, the usual influenza season is now upon us. Some of us will take the ‘flu jab to protect ourselves from the dreadful disease. The elderly and other vulnerable groups will get free inoculations and should be encouraged...

The word “religion” simply means, “union with God”. Definition is complicated by different interpretations by various genuine/ fake personalities. Their teachings become dogmas to be implemented by force, to form a cult. Dogmas interplay with...

At the present USA is the most powerful nation on our planet. This fact connotes that their Vice President should be the second most informed person on earth, after the president, who has at his command myriads of spy agencies whose reach is...

I congratulate from the very core of my heart both Sri Kailash Satyarthi and Miss Malala Yousafzai for receiving Nobel Peace Prize of 2014. Both of them deserve the award.

Your editorial rightly points out the superior side of India and its “time-tested values rooted in freedom of thought and expression, of cultural pluralism, the rule of law and democratic governance”.

I found your article on Modi’s “Swarcch Bharat Abhiyan”, which was published last week but I am laid to wonder if is this a total commitment or just a tokenism?

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I read with interest the recent article by Baroness Flather. Faith schools have an important role in UK, mainly because many children from different faith backgrounds suffer bulllying, feel isolated and under peer pressure to conform to what...

Religion is a code of conduct for an Individual and a Community, ordained by some Messiah, Prophet, Religious Leader, holy Books and/or by God Himself.

Break-up of BJP/SS alliance in Maharashtra is retrograde step. It will hurt BJP at the next Lock Sabha election. Uday Thakre blames BJP who wanted to accommodate Sharad Pawar’s NCP. Uday felt it would not only disrupt the alliance but with BJP/Modi/SS...