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Cycling in Chicago: Stalin chasing new dreams

“Evening calm sets the stage for new dreams,” the Chief Minister said in a post on ‘X’ along with a short video of his cycle ride, probably mesmerized by the cool evening sea breeze. While riding the high-end model cycle, he was also humming a number from an old Tamil film.

Bigotry impedes growth and must be shunned

Vivekananda once wrote: “Religion is a question of fact, not of talk. We have to analyse our own souls and find what is there. We have to understand it and realize what is understood. That is religion.”

Swamiji’s relevance

The 19th century Bengal Renaissance had been the force behind the influx of Western rationality and thought in India. Fed up with the superstition accumulated over the ages, educated Indians decided to do away completely with ‘religion‘. It is now fashionable to speak of ‘secular education‘ – where the word ‘secular‘ is interpreted to mean devoid of any particular religious beliefs whatsoever. But this apparently ‘neutral‘ stand has often sucked out the life-giving components from culture and education. In the attempt to remove the weeds from a plant, the very plant has been cut down, as it were