Earning profit is the main motive of any industrial organisation. But it is not the sole object of industry. An industry has certain obligations towards society. It has to respect social values and norms and give back to society, because it is the society that provides all possible resources to carry out the industrial and […]
Would you mind rolling your eyeballs at people starving, dying in extreme conditions, in need of things you can so easily afford to give them? I know, you won’t bother to do so, because you are born like that. Nothing shakes you, makes you think otherwise. You and your like are all that matter on […]
Kashmir has always been famous for its culture and traditions. People laud its beguiling and luscious cuisine. Kashmir remains in the limelight either for its arresting beauty or for its ugly conflict. Amid all of this, Kashmir is known for its great hospitality and extravagant marriages. Marriages in Kashmir are no longer a union of […]
In 1908, Rabindranath Tagore composed a letter to his companion, A M Bose, and said, “Patriotism can’t be our final spiritual shelter. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.” From these above famous lines, it is manifest […]
Why ‘Normalisation’ with Israel will fail It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel’s relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally […]
From subsistence to commercial farming, from the green revolution to the gene revolution, Indian agriculture has come of age. The country once called as a ‘begging bowl’ has now become a ‘bread basket’. The period corresponding to 1967-78 witnessed huge upsurge in food grains production especially in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The green revolution […]
Diversity and inclusion is gaining momentum in all corners of world, be it policies, corporate world, welfare society or any other field. When both these are embraced, they outperform other strategies and missions. Let’s apply these to our food. Diversity supports health, research shows. Those who consume a diet that includes all major food groups […]
This brief article explores the meaning, forms, and benefits of patience. “Be persistent and patient, for Allah is with whom who maintain patience.” (Qur’an 8:46). According to Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (a.s.), patience is to faith what the head is to the body. As the body dies without the head, when patience dies, so does faith. […]
“What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.” – Whitney Wolfe Herd There was a time when people looked happy and there was a different glow on their faces, but when we see people today, […]
“We are vessels of very limited content. Not all men can read all books; it is only in a chosen few that any man can find his appointed food.” – R L Stevenson Modern man has become a kind of post-human with greater capabilities due to the technological tools available to him. But this technological […]