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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicCivilisation

Topic: Civilisation

World’s first highway network connecting nearly 1,000 ancient Mayan settlements discovered

According to the researchers, the ancient world's first-ever extensive system of 'super-highways' have been hidden for millennia by dense jungles of northern Guatemala & southern Mexico.

How Modi govt is rejuvenating India’s civilisational heritage

PM Modi has realised that India's cultural heritage is the most powerful bond that forges Bharatavarsha and her people and he is re-strengthening those bonds.

SubscriberWrites: Spirituality, not religion answer to development of human civilisation

It is up to society, not governments to ensure that religions emerge from its cocooned space rather than advocate tolerance of the intolerant as secularism, writes Col K.L. Viswanathan.

India was once the cradle of civilization. Now it’s a ‘chalta hai’ country because of ‘jugaad’

In ‘The Happiness Trail’, Ramesh Venkateswaran lays down five easy-to-follow approaches to a happy and successful life, which he calls the five I’s.

In the age of Zoom, it is challenging to maintain eye contact. What can we do to fix it?

Trust is the bedrock of civilisation, and living through screens is taking a significant psychological toll.

SubscriberWrites: ‘Democracy 2.0’ — A new definition of democracy is needed in changing times

Civilisation constantly evolves and political definitions must evolve with them. Deepesh Salgia offers three new definitions for 'Democracy 2.0'

Nehru said India’s global rise was ‘inevitable’. This belief now defines our foreign policy

In ‘Making India Great’, Aparna Pande writes about Indian exceptionalism and how its civilisational history defines its sense of self.

Big gods came after the rise of civilisations not before, finds study

Our statistical analysis showed that beliefs in supernatural punishment tend to appear only when societies make the transition from simple to complex.

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India is going to have its least free & fair election in 2024. See these 5 indicators

So far what we have seen of the 2024 elections is enough to indicate that the continuous slide of democratic standards is headed toward breaching the minimum threshold of an electoral democracy.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.