Bikram Vohra is a humor writer.
The wonderful world of remote working. Lawyer Rod Ponton fetches up on the split screen in the New York 394th district court’s virtual case as a cat because he didn’t remove the Zoom filter and the pretty kitty is a tough one to get rid of even though it is a decade old gimmick. Republican Congressman Tom Emmer zoomed into a House committee meeting upside down. We all know the travails of getting this act together and synching audio and coming to terms with mute and unmute and entering the chat room or exiting it.
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If not now, then never: Rich countries respond to Covid with stimulus. India has no option but to reform February 16, 2021, 7:41 AM IST
Ruchir Sharma is the author of the upcoming ‘10 Rules of Successful Nations’
Many commentators complain that now, with the pandemic-stricken economy already “in the ICU”, is exactly the wrong time to push painful reform. But if not now, when? Precious few nations ever accept harsh medicine unless they are forced to by a crisis.
Reformers come out better in the end. Today developed nations are offering ever larger stimulus packages to ease the shock of the pandemic, but they are running up debts that will slow growth in the future. Meanwhile, India is just one of the many emerging countries that, lacking the funds for more stimulus, are instead pushing reforms which are likely to boost productivity and growth.
Part 1 of the series ‘Free to Air’ In 1960, the New York Times published a full-page advertisement by supporters of Martin Luther King Jr criticising the conduct of the police department in Montgomery, Alabama..
Dearly beloved Valentine’s Day, we can only sigh and bite our lip under the mask. As we lay you down to rest this year, we imagine you in a group hug with the ghosts of.
Dharma is based on loka sangraha February 14, 2021, 8:41 PM IST
By Shardha Batra
Dharma is the cosmic law which holds things, people, families, society, nations, and the countless, disparate elements of the cosmos together as a cohesive, harmonious and meaningful whole.
When this mystical law is translated into motivations and actions, appropriate to a specific individual in a specific situation, it transcends personal desires and attachments and manifests as dharma in its aspect as duty.
The ‘Vedas’ expand the word ‘dharma’ to include the abstract truths of ‘Satyam’, ‘Brihad’ and ‘Ritam’.
Satyam is the essential truth of a situation, deeper and more complex than the surface appearance. It is a result of ‘buddhi’ penetrating the threadbare essence of a situation.