Sir — The culling of minks on a farm where they are raised for their fur might not come as a surprise to many. But close to 1,00,000 of these creatures are being slaughtered because they contrac...

Arguably the two greatest modern Bengalis were Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore. Both have had a colossal and still enduring influence on their state, their country, and the world. Tagore and...

Is accepting modern science tantamount to rejecting religion? It would appear, at first glance, that the relationship between science and religion is predominantly governed by ‘Or’. Scienc...

The impulse at the heart of religions is far from aggressive or exclusionary; religions are forever in respectful conversation with one another. This seems to have been the message underlying the invi...

Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician-turned-philosopher, defined the task of philosophy as one of assembling. For Whitehead, it is the assembling of ideas that forms the task of philosophy. Exten...

Nothing, perhaps, is more foolhardy than attempting to ring in the New Year by looking back, not ahead. But we live in interesting times, and serendipity led to a time tunnel in a verdant patch in Thi...

Objectionable messages, directed at the BJP and saffron groups, were found written on the pedestal of a yet-to-be-unveiled statue of Swami Vivekananda on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Thur...

What is an epic is an important theme for debate. Can poetry help us understand the world? More specifically, can epic poetry provide a framework on which to base our view of historical events? The In...

I turned away from politics and moved towards ethics to understand Indian society, mainly the relationship between the State and society. I found two ideas in ethics, namely, altruism and philanthropy...

Belur Math, the global headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, will hold a meet of its former students from across the country on December 28 and 29.The Mission has 200-odd educational insti...