Tobacco trance? Sunita Tomar’s cancer death a wake-up call
Sunita Tomar, the face of India’s anti-tobacco campaign, lost her battle against oral cancer, passing away at the age of 28 in her hometown Bhind in Madhya Pradesh. Sunita had …
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India banks on yoga export: Blending soft power and commerce
India is banking on the global popularity of yoga to cash in on the success of its most famous cultural export. In the recently unveiled new Foreign Trade Policy, yoga has been included under the services export section, a move that shows the government’s enterprise in leveraging its soft power.
The trade policy focus on the ancient Indian discipline of wellness has come in the run-up to a host of events India will be hosting for celebrations relating to the International Day of Yoga on June 21, a pioneering step that was possible only with India’s proactive diplomacy.
The new trade policy aspires to make India a star player in world trade by 2020 – currently Asia’s third largest economy accounts just about 2% of global trade.
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‘Un-freedom’ for s(h)ame-sex film in India
After the blockbuster erotica “Fifty Shades of Grey” failed to get clearance in India, another film, ‘Un-freedom’, portraying homosexuality, has been banned in the country that is known for one …
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Art of Living versus bullying: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar under ISIS scanner
After he conducted his Art of Living discourse and addressed around 70,000 people at the Batu Kawan Stadium on “Discourse, Music and Meditation” in a multi-ethnic Muslim majority country like Malaysia, Indian spiritual guru …
Read MorePads against sexism: No longer mum about the chum
By Tvara Misra Sometimes you need to state the obvious. Yes, women menstruate. There is blood, and mess and it is not as rosy as they portray in the blue …
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Booker glory beckons Amitav Ghosh
The Booker glory beckons Indian novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh yet again. Having narrowly missed the Anglophone world’s most coveted literary honour in 2008, the 58-year-old author has been nominated …
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Minorities in India: Rajnath Singh calls for anti-conversion law
Amid a brewing controversy over the targeting of minorities by fringe groups, India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh has questioned conversions by Christian charities, and pitched for an anti-conversion law. Addressing …
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Secularism has worked for India: Dalai Lama
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader has showered rich praise on India’s practice of secularism and underlined the need for reducing conflicts based on religion in the world. Appreciating India’s vibrant democracy, …
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ISIS is now the Fourth Reich: V. S. Naipaul
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul has warned the world of a “contemporary Holocaust” as the ISIS threatens to create a “Fourth Reich” through violence and propaganda equal to that of …
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Google view Taj Mahal tops Asia list
Taj Mahal, the 17th century white marble mausoleum in Agra, tops the Asia list for global virtual travellers. The iconic monument, which was built as a memorial by Mughal emperor …
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