By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the Upanishads, the word brahmin is about inner realisation. In Dharma-shastra, the word brahmin is about birth status and purity. The early Upanishads were composed between 600 BC and 200 BC, while the early Dharma-shastra were composed between 200 BC and 500 AD. The former is more spiritual. The latter is more legal. Strict…
The Lighter Side By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There is a peculiar affliction sweeping through humanity with a virulence that would have alarmed even the most seasoned epidemiologist and I speak not of any virus that a laboratory has yet catalogued. I speak of Chronic Busyness Syndrome, a condition in which the sufferer is perpetually occupied, permanently rushed and constitutionally unavailable,…
Mysuru: The Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam has entered the crucial Southwest Monsoon season of 2026 with one of its poorest water positions in recent years, raising concerns over the sluggish progress of rainfall in Cauvery catchment areas of Kodagu. According to official data from Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Limited (CNNL) on June 28, 2026, the reservoir held 11.233 tmcft of water at…
By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana God created the Maharajas to provide a spectacle to humanity,” wrote Rudyard Kipling. And what a royal spectacle they were, their lives, the stuff dreams are made of, their alliances, mis-alliances and, of course, their fabulous and fabled weddings. This stunning black and white photograph of fourteen-year- old…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD With its most recent announcement that the holding of an Indian Passport cannot be considered as proof of our Indian Citizenship, our Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has created a legal paradox, which may soon snowball into a situation akin to the opening of the proverbial Pandora’s Box. Hitherto, the possession of this presumably…
Three days ago, news broke of an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on the residence of an Additional Excise Commissioner. Almost at the same time, a bureaucrat’s wife on her Instagram page posted her pics carrying a designer handbag that probably cost half of her husband’s annual salary. For a fleeting moment, I was envious and muttered, “I wish I were a bureaucrat…
Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Shekhar Kapur: I understand Nandi is Shiva’s vehicle. Is he waiting for Shiva to come out and say… what? Tell me more about the Nandi. Sadhguru: He is not waiting for him to come out and say something. He is in waiting. Nandi is a symbolism of eternal waiting, because waiting is…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The historical Buddha is largely an artefact of 19th-century European scholarship rather than a recovered fact, as per scholars like Bernard Faure. He argues that virtually nothing is known about the figure known as the Buddha and historical reconstructions are just as pious and imaginative as the myths and legends they claim to supplant. Far from…
Hebbal Lake’s restoration success story loses its way By Bhamy V. Shenoy A visit to Hebbal Lake, located next to the Infosys campus, has always been a pleasant experience. However, my visit on June 22 came as a shock and left me deeply saddened. The foul smell was evident the moment I entered through the lake gate. I later learnt that the lake currently holds…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There is a particular variety of human being that the great Indian experiment has produced with remarkable consistency over the last several decades and I have the dubious honour of being a specimen in reasonably good working condition. We are the middle-class Indians, a tribe so distinct in our habits that anthropologists, had they…
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