There is barely anyone at the site of the peepal tree on the banks of the now-dry Niranjana river, where Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, after he is believed to have attained samma-sambodhi(perfect enlightenment). The tree is located at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya, about 115 km south of Patna, Bihar’s capital. Within
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Professor Vivek Kumar’s latest book evaluates B.R. Ambedkar’s ideas for the building of India as a modern nation-state, and his contributions to it when the idea was still nascent. It highlights the erasure of Ambedkar’s contributions in key areas of governance, leadership, and policymaking, which were neither acknowledged nor studied by his contemporaries or Indian
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Despite the various frictions, America’s technology sector did pretty well during Joe Biden’s presidency — and despite the various warnings about his mercurial opponent, many tech executives supported Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. After his victory, even more rushed to Trump’s side, with Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg going on
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Some of Mumbai’s corporate titans such as Essar Group, Aditya Birla Group, JSW Steel and Taj Group are fuming over an eviction order targeting their business jets at the Adani-owned Chhatrapati Shivaji Mumbai International Airport (CSMIA). Industry insiders claim the move is a strong-arm tactic to force them to relocate to the soon-to-open Navi Mumbai
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Representative image | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The story so far: Sixteen years after David Coleman Headley (Daood Gilani) and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed an FIR and a charge-sheet against them, Rana has been extradited to India. His extradition marks
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The Jallianwala Bagh Journals present criss-crossing reminiscences from multiple other times and our continuing present on the Indian subcontinent—of joys, of suffering, of profound loss, of retrieval, resilience, and courage; also of memory and forgetting and the blurring of the boundaries between memory, forgetting and “remembering” fading contours of that which is believed to have
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How would you interpret this painting by Jackson Pollock? A new study suggests that processing the image in higher orders of the brain is what gives it your unique meaning. | Photo Credit: Sabine Glaubitz/dpa/picture alliance When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a museum for example, what do you see and
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The President’s recourse to Article 143 also palliates any apprehensions of bias or mala fides in the Central government’s approach to Bills reserved under Article 200, the Supreme Court said. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court has put the President on a three-month deadline to decide whether or not to assent to State
Think biryani sizzler and idiyappam with crab soup alongside steaks, pastas, toasts, and croissants. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement If there is one thing that can best describe Chocko Choza’s core principle, it is defiance. Right from their refusal to add artificial colour to their red velvet cake to make it more attractive, to adding real strawberry
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In Massajog in the Beed district of Maharashtra, a pendal (temporary structure) has been erected outside the village temple, in the shadow of a 100-year-old tamarind tree. Under the shamiana, on a table, is a garlanded photo of Santosh Deshmukh, the 45-year-old sarpanch of the village who was brutally murdered on December 9, 2024. Next
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