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Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #68: look through the window and celebrate the world

Long time ago, before the onset of the pandemic, one fine morning while I was driving to the office I looked out of the car while waiting at a traffic light. The weather was beautiful and temperate - the kind I would have loved to play cricket in when I

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone – Issue #67: Be a Vishnu

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone – Issue #67: Be a Vishnu

Worship is a worthless act. Prayer is the work of a spiritual idiot. The gods we create. Those, who we put on a mental pedestal and weave stories around them – usually “male” (what a dastardly conspiracy) are mere placebos that many cannot do without. Maharishi Vasistha shared the wise words

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #67: Be a Vishnu

Worship is a worthless act. Prayer is the work of a spiritual idiot. The gods we create. Those, who we put on a mental pedestal and weave stories around them - usually “male” (what a dastardly conspiracy) are mere placebos that many cannot do without. Maharishi Vasistha shared the wise

Xinjiang capital – Urumqi – goes into ‘War-time’ Mode

Xinjiang capital – Urumqi – goes into ‘War-time’ Mode

There is something afoot. One of its Urumqi, the capital of China’s far western region of Xinjiang – the province where the Uighurs were has gone into “wartime mode” and launched an emergency response plan after the city reported 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday. Just 16 cases and war-time

Air bubble between India, Germany and France for plane travel

Air bubble between India, Germany and France for plane travel

India has announced the creation of travel bubbles with the US, Germany, and France. Airlines from these countries can bring passengers of certain categories of passengers and fly them out. Air India announced flights till August end to US, Paris and Frankfurt. Also, Air India will lower its fares as

Rajnath Singh visits soldiers near LoC in Kupwara

Rajnath Singh visits soldiers near LoC in Kupwara

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday visited a forward post near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir and interacted with the soldiers deployed there. > जो बोले सो निहाल… pic.twitter.com/PK578l7Mon [https://t.co/PK578l7Mon] — Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh)

COVID India cases spike to 35,000 a day, deaths above 26,000

COVID India cases spike to 35,000 a day, deaths above 26,000

Showing no signs of a slowdown, India recorded a spike of 34,884 COVID cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare. With 671 casualties reported in a day, the death toll due to coronavirus has increased to 26,273. While Tamil