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What is Maya? Narada Muni wanted the answer so he meditated for decades until Vishnu appeared. “Come,” the god said, “let us walk and I will tell you what Maya is.” They walked on the hot sands of the desert and soon they were tired,...

Running a media establishment is an expensive and difficult proposition, be it print, TV or internet based. Overhead costs are high and unbearable for most, and these establishments somehow make ends meet. Except for a few that have other business interests and the media arm...

It would now appear that the entire nation has, or would soon, erupt into massive farmer protests over the new agriculture legislation that the Union government has brought about in the brief Monsoon Session of Parliament. What started as protests in Punjab and Haryana a...

The Covid pandemic’s sweep in India is widening. It is virtually on a roll, its reach covering the entire nation. From a daily tally of less than a thousand in the beginning of April, the per-day infection rate is currently in the range of nearly...

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act is a funny old piece of legislation. It appeared in India in 1976 as a law to prevent external interference in India’s electoral process and democracy. It prohibited the receiving of foreign money by political parties and their candidates, journalists...

While senior bureaucrats often get re-employed with the government after they retire, it is certainly rare for a retired babu to be reappointed as secretary to the government, to the same post he retired from two years earlier. But the Modi sarkar has many firsts...

From the election point of view, farmers are too important a segment for any political party in the country to ignore. No political party in India worth its salt can afford to antagonise this segment. This being the case, why is that the BJP-led NDA...

When Indian elephants meet African elephants, they recognise that they are both elephants. So do Indian tigers meeting Siberian ones. But I have great difficulty recognising that I am of the same species as a person who attends a wild foods festival in New Zealand...

The Covid-19 pandemic’s massive spread has created an extraordinary and extremely difficult situation for all segments of society, worldwide. This could be more so for the business community at large, which runs the show on the back of funds borrowed from banks as loans that...

What is touted as a major agriculture reform legislation, when it came, is facing limited resistance from the unorganized farming community. The Union government, in passing the three agriculture-related Bills, has tried to play a game similar to the earlier move it made in reforms...