The Dalai Lama’s lapse
“IF a female Dalai Lama comes, then she should be more attractive” because if she were not attractive then “people prefer not to see her”. This was what the soon-to-be…
“IF a female Dalai Lama comes, then she should be more attractive” because if she were not attractive then “people prefer not to see her”. This was what the soon-to-be…
The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media. Most commonly, the Ukraine War has been…
So, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, has embarked upon her much-touted tour of Southeast Asia. Pelosi, number three in the line of US presidential succession,…
It was a mere coincidence that I met 24-year-old Mr Shehzad Latif at a youth training workshop in Mirpur a few years ago. Like his other fellows, he was also…
THE 2020 Global Teacher Prize, sponsored by the Varkey Foundation and Unesco, and worth a million dollars, has been awarded to Ranjitsinh Disale, a primary school teacher in a village…
On December 21, the United States Senate finally passed a pandemic relief bill. The most attention-grabbing part of this legislation is the direct payments of $600 to almost every American.…
WHO was the first sentient being to ask the question: ‘Is there an after-life?’ It has taken humans countless millennia to formulate their own separate answers, only to discover that…
AFTER spotting a reference to the poet Dom Moraes in my article on Ved Mehta, a thoughtful reader wrote to tell me that he owned a copy of Dom’s first…
Discussing Ladakh we must keep in mind that last year in August when the Indian government violated its own constitution to make a unilateral announcement of annexing Indian Occupied Kashmir…
“The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy,” Esther Hicks. Kartarpur corridor has the potential of bringing joy to millions of spiritual followers…