Birmingham: Battling painful blisters on his foot and severe cramps, a gritty Lakshya Sen overcame Canada’s Victor Lai to storm into the final of the All England Open here on Saturday, moving within one win of ending India’s 25-year wait for the prestigious title. It turned out to be one of the finest matches of…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar confirmed on Saturday that India permitted an Iranian ship to dock in Kochi on humanitarian grounds following a request from the Iranian side on February 28 as the vessel faced some problems. Permission was given for the vessel to dock on March 1, and the warship, IRIS Lavan,…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the TMC government in West Bengal hit a new low in its “anarchic behaviour” by “humiliating” President Droupadi Murmu with its glaring disregard for protocol. This lays bare “the rot in the TMC government”, Shah said in a post on X, hours after Murmu expressed…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of development projects worth around Rs 33,500 crore, including two new Delhi Metro corridors, giving a major boost to the national capital’s infrastructure. The prime minister will also address a gathering on the occasion. Before the programme, Modi will visit…
On the eve of International Women’s Day, India finds itself at an important crossroads in the journey toward gender equality. For decades, women’s empowerment remained a powerful slogan in political speeches, campaign manifestos, and policy declarations. Yet, meaningful representation of women in India’s legislative bodies remained limited. Despite forming nearly half of the country’s population,…
This is an article series. Please read all previous articles before reading this article. The URLs for all previous articles are located in the www.specialthoughts.com section. Continuing on with the hierarchy of Devata-s, let’s look at the venerable Devata-s in Level 12. Soorya Just from a physical perspective… To see… we need light. While Fire…
The shastras take a logical approach to convey the unknown truth through known faculties. The Lord uses the sensory perceptions and negates them so that you cannot reach God through your organs of perception, emotion or thought. God is not an object that can be captured with your limited equipment of body, mind, and intellect….
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the dawn-lit silence of Vedic antiquity, when sacred fires rose like luminous pillars between earth and heaven, the sages invoked Indra in the solemn cadence of the Gayatri Mantra. Their grammar was not merely linguistic precision; it was reverence embodied. Each syllable was weighed against Sruti—the eternal revelation—where sound itself was…
Shalya, the king of Madra and a scion of the Bahlika line, pledged his loyalty to Dharmaraja and vowed that when the great war arose, he would deal with Karna in a manner befitting justice. He confessed to the son of Pandu that his heart had long been wounded by the coarse conduct and merciless…
Sri Pathala Sembu Murugan Temple is located in Ramalingampatti village near Reddiarchatram in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu. The temple is situated in a peaceful rural area surrounded by small hills and agricultural fields near the foothills of the Western Ghats. The temple is believed to be around 800–1000 years old according to temple traditions. In…
