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…
Kathmandu: RSP’s Balendra Shah on Saturday defeated four-time PM K P Sharma Oli by a huge margin and is set to form the next government in Nepal, decimating traditional political parties in the first general elections since last year’s violent Gen Z protests demanding generational change and a corruption-free regime. Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah ‘Balen,’ the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the people and government of Nepal for the successful conduct of elections in the Himalayan nation, and said the historic milestone is a proud moment in Nepal’s democratic journey. Modi also said that as a close friend and neighbour, India remains steadfast in its commitment to…
Patna: JD(U) MLA Hari Narayan Singh, a close aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on Saturday claimed that a “unanimous” decision has been taken to make the party supremo’s son Nishant the deputy CM in the new government to be formed upon his father’s resignation. Singh, the MLA from Harnaut, the assembly segment in…
New Delhi: India has secured the best trade deal with the US compared to its competing nations, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday, noting that the two countries share a “very powerful” relationship. He said that the US is the world’s largest economy – USD 30 trillion – and nobody can wish…
