Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said he was not surprised by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s decision to allow separate seating for the 20 rebel TMC lawmakers, who have joined a little-known party, the NCPI. Tharoor, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a book launch event, said the rebel Trinamool Congress MPs…
More than Revanth’s voter card The controversy over Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s alleged dual voter registration has once again exposed a much larger and more uncomfortable truth: Bharat’s electoral database management remains a bureaucratic maze where government agencies work in silos and accountability is often the first casualty. The issue is no longer…
K S Nagarajan The increasing demand for energy and the continuous depletion of conventional energy resources have encouraged researchers and engineers to explore alternative methods of energy generation and utilization. Modern engineering focuses not only on producing energy efficiently but also on recovering and utilizing energy that would otherwise remain unexploited. Consequently, human-powered machines, energy-harvesting…
Navi Mumbai’s first international flight isn’t the real story. The new economic geography taking shape around it is. Airports possess an odd talent for misleading people. They appear to exist so that aircraft can land, passengers can depart and duty-free shops can persuade travellers that another bottle of perfume is somehow an investment. In reality,…
A 48-year-old businessman had just returned home after a long international flight. Apart from a mild pain in his left calf, which he dismissed as a simple muscle strain from travelling, he felt perfectly well. Two days later, while climbing the stairs at home, he suddenly became breathless and developed severe chest pain. Within minutes,…
A Bengaluru-based deep tech startup, Vimag Labs, patented a Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM) platform that would likely shape the future of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing in India. At present, the startup is running pilot projects with this new EV technology with 2W (two-wheelers) and passenger-vehicle OEMs. Passenger‑vehicle OEMs are car companies that build and…
Ramu Chilimella Among all journeys of existence, the human journey is regarded in Vedic wisdom as the rarest and most sacred gift. It is bestowed not merely for comfort, achievement, or worldly enjoyment, but as a divine opportunity to awaken, refine our karma, realize our true Self, and ultimately attain Moksha. If human birth is…
Q: When, why, and how does one stagnate in the spiritual field, and what is the process to measure oneself? A: When one is performing the same action daily and a sense of boredom, fatigue, or monotony can set in, then it is a clear sign of stagnation. When the action does not inspire or…
This is an article series. Please read all previous articles before reading this article. The URLs for all previous articles are located in the SPECIAL THOUGHTS section. Pundra a.k.a. Tilaka Proceeding from the brief overview of Veera Vaishnava and Veera Shaiva philosophies, let’s now ponder over a related topic, namely Pundra Dhaarana. Almost all Hindus…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The sage Bhargava Somahuti, immersed in the disciplined cadence of Tristubh metre, raises his invocation to Agni, the divine mediator, inviting him as the sacred guest who transcends all impurity and bears the oblations from the mortal realm to the divine. Agni is not merely fire in its physical manifestation, but the knower…
