From Father God to Hindu Patriarchy Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale became a feminist icon in the West because its nightmare was instantly recognisable: Christian patriarchy carried to its dystopian conclusion. Male religious authority controls women, scripture provides the sanction, and the female body becomes territory over which Church and State exercise power. Western feminism…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula Among the luminous revelations of the Rigveda, the hymns composed by the sage Vishwamitra in the sacred Gayatri chandas stand as radiant expressions of humanity’s earliest spiritual intuition and disciplined scientific contemplation. In these hymns, Agni is not merely the physical flame kindled upon the altar, but the conscious divine principle that unites…
The venerable sage Nārāyaṇa, absorbed in profound devotion, worshipped Lord Shiva with unwavering concentration and offered exalted hymns of praise. Acknowledging Shiva as the Absolute Reality, the eternal foundation of all existence, he declared that whoever truly realizes this supreme truth attains the highest merit and ultimately reaches liberation. With a heart overflowing with devotion,…
Sri Matsya Venkateswara Swamy Temple is located on a hill at Devarampadu village in Rajupalem Mandal, Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh. The temple is popularly known as Nethi Venkanna and is also associated with the name Palnati Tirumala. This unique shrine is especially known for the worship of Lord Venkateswara in connection with the Matsya, or…
PALFINGER has already done the easy part in India: it has sold the equipment. The harder part begins when an Austrian lifting-equipment specialist starts putting serious money, engineering capability and manufacturing muscle behind the Indian operation and then asks the Indian market to decide whether the proposition is worth paying for. That makes bauma CONEXPO…
Dhaka: Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday met Bangladesh’s Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Abdul Moyeen Khan and discussed ways to deepen people-to-people ties and strengthen local government structures. During the meeting, Minister of State Mir Shahe Alam was also present. “The discussions focused on deepening the people-to-people ties between India…
Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday accused the BJP-led West Bengal government of pursuing “political vendetta” against his party after he was questioned for nearly six hours over a scuffle at his office here last week during the removal of an unauthorised billboard. Banerjee, who walked out of Shakespeare Sarani police station after…
Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) will conduct open selection trials for women cricketers on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at the TKR College Grounds from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Women cricketers in the Junior and Senior categories from across Telangana have been invited to participate in the trials. Based on their performances, talented players…
New Delhi: The Punjab government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a high court order directing it to release all pending dearness allowance and dearness relief dues to state employees and pensioners within a fortnight, contending that the direction to pay arrears totalling around Rs 14,191 crore in such a short period was constitutionally impossible….
Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP on Tuesday ridiculed the Congress government led by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for celebrating 1,000 days in office, asking what exactly the government has achieved that warrants celebration. The BJP State Chief Spokesperson and Media In-charge, N V Subash, questioned the Congress leadership to name even one of its major…
