A cartoon showing Donald Trump and Xi Jinping arguing into the twenty-second century, and progressively levying tariffs of a billion percent on each other, captures the essence of present developments. Probably, world leaders have to be reminded that levies beyond a point are meaningless ~ guaranteed only to bring international trade to a standstill.
The Reserve Bank of India has recently flagged a troubling trend ~ rising asymmetries in the shortterm money market rates that threaten the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission.
The renewed talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions mark a cautious but notable shift in a long-fraught relationship.
Rabindranath Tagore owes his conscience, consciousness and disillusionment to none but mother earth in the poem ‘Prithibi’, written on 16 October 1935. Around 1910, Tagore is writing the Santiniketan series of essays, and there, too, he underlines how he sees no distinction between his own self and the larger nonhuman around.
Growing up in a small Christian-majority village in Kerala's Kannur district, my world was defined by the church bells, catechism classes,and the vibrant festivals that marked our community’s cultural calendar.
Police work is arduous, stressful, and terribly thankless. Perhaps from no other profession is so much demanded with so little recompense.
The elevation of Rishi Sunak to 10 Downing Street may fall substantially short of the momentousness of Barack Obama’s 2008 triumph — after all, it isn’t based on any mandate.
Dharma or religion plays an important role in how we understand time - both the linear time of history and the cyclical times of social and spiritual events. In that sense, history is still, according to the Baha’i writings, an unsatisfactory record of human progress.
India finally won its independence on 15 August 1947. Power was transferred by the British to the two Dominions, India, and Pakistan. It has often been suggested that Britain’s decision.
On October 6, the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) passed a resolution against Sri Lanka with 20 countries voting in favour, 20 against and seven abstaining.
