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No matter what the challenge in life, we always need to stay aware of the nature of thoughts that we harbour when things start to prove difficult: Do we think in defeatist terms and put ourselves down as losers? Or are we willing to take…
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There is much debate on different kinds of pollution – water, soil, air and other elements. But the most dangerous of them all is mental pollution that is rarely acknowledged and hardly discussed in public forums. Any kind of mental…
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Ethos, the first step, is about establishing the speaker’s authority and status; logos, the next step, is presenting one’s logical argument. And pathos, the final step, is to sway the listener by appealing to their emotions.Almost 2,500…
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After receiving the 2022 Templeton Prize, Frank Wilczek interacted with The Times of India at a reception at Times Center, New York City. “Conceptual perfection in equations governs the physical world. Beauty helps us know how the world…
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Is Risk-taking is mostly Due to Hormones?Picture a young couple driving on a cliffside road, with the man driving. They come by a slow-moving car, and wish to overtake it, but a truck rapidly approaches on the oncoming lane. Rather than…
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As the Ukrainian crisis escalates with dark clouds looming over the world, the UN High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace was held on September 6 in New York. Building the Culture of Peace has been a priority theme for the UN since 2000,…
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Text: We are used to thinking of freedom as an event that we experience. Nations celebrate the day of their ‘independence’ from foreign rule; those wrongly accused, celebrate a conviction that has been overturned, teenagers ‘coming of age’…
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Today, when we “live stream” something, we are receiving information from a faraway invisible source. The fact is that all religious teaching and divine truth was believed to be essentially live-streamed into prophets and mystics, who were…
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India has six major religions – Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Sikhism, where Hindus form 80% of the population and others are minorities. There are also States in India with majority populations of other religions…
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I have recently been thinking of how the enforced solitude during the worst of the epidemic had people responding to it so differently. Some of us, though finding it tedious, settled into the isolation, keeping ourselves busy — even…
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