40 years of Islamic Revolution in Iran
Since the 1979 revolution, international relations and geopolitical equations have drastically changed. Besides stirring up a debate on Islam vs West, it continues to have repercussions on the Islamic Republic’s relations with the rest of the world In the political history of West Asian and North African (WANA) region, the...
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Eurasian security at stake
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Be the master of your own self
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We have been sufficiently equipped
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Briefly Speaking
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Attaining spiritual consciousness
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Oddly Enough
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Culture Lane
17 February 2019 | Team Agenda
A cold chain prayer to prevent vaccine wastage
Vaccines are sensitive and fragile, and hence need to be stored in proper conditions; temperatures and sequence of storage are critical elements for ensuring the potency Deepak Pal stole a glance at the battered, metal clock. It was just past 9 am. His morning tea would have to wait. He walked...
Just one birthday wish
Birthday Girl Author - Haruki Murakami Publisher - Penguin, Rs 100 Murakami’s recently re-released Birthday Girl is just the gift that a grown-up would need on his/her next birthday. In its philosophy as well as writing style, it is a rare literary treat, writes UMANG AGGARWAL There’s almost nothing new about a story that...
The films and fictions of ruth Jhabvala
Fiction to Film Author - Vivek Sachdeva Publisher - Orient Blackswan, Rs 795 Vivek SachdevaRs s book Fiction to Film will be of great use to both research scholars of film and literary studies as well as enthusiasts and connoisseurs of adapted classics, writes KALYANEE RAJAN The print and the visual multimedia as distinct disciplines...
Gandhi and his India
Aparna Basu’s Gandhi’s Vision: Freedom and Beyond takes a leaf out of Mahatma Gandhi’s life and gives readers a sense of the thoughts and actions that led India to Independence and built a base for social development. An excerpt: The Swadeshi Movement was a result of the Partition of Bengal by...
Bollywood’s Biopic Boom
Not long ago, Bollywood aligned itself with the cultural ideology of the ruling party, which favoured a nationalistic revival. This new cinema demanded a sense of national pride in its stories, and the biopic genre fulfils this condition without ruffling many feathers, writes Himanshi Sharma On February 9, Rupesh Paul dropped...
Relevance of Modi’s Pariksha pe charcha
A great person is one who affects the mind of new generation — Benjamin Disraeli Prime Minister Modi’s motivational “Pariksha pe Charcha” is highly appreciable at a time when students are encountering challenges in the transition phase, mainly value systems across the globe. In this context, the PM’s direct talk...
Significance of Pope’s visit to UAE
The three days visit of Pope Francis to the UAE has attracted tremendous global attention, the kind of which has hardly been noticed in recent history. The event has been dominantly framed as a bold attempt to overcome the modern, binary framework of Islam/Arab vs Christian/West and therefore a welcoming...
