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TopicVishnu

Topic: Vishnu

SC lawyer admits he ‘hurled’ shoe at CJI; was let go after brief police detention

Kishore says he was enraged at CJI's remarks while hearing plea to restore Vishnu idol. He also says he was apprehensive CJI might intervene in anti-encroachment drive in Bareilly.

‘Mocked Hindu faith,’ says VHP chief on CJI Gavai’s ‘ask your deity’ remark in Khajuraho case

VHP chief Alok Kumar's reaction came Thursday when CJI Gavai sought to put a lid on the controversy, explaining that his remark was misrepresented on social media. 

Mohini is not an avatar of Vishnu—despite what Devi Bhagavata Purana says

In 'Devi and Her Avatars', Alka Pande explores forms of the goddess in Hindu mythology and her impact on art and culture.

Buddha used to be Vishnu in India. In Sri Lanka, Vishnu is a future Buddha

In the 15th–17th centuries, the politics and ethnic diversity of Sri Lanka led to the subordination of Vishnu into the Buddhist pantheon.

How Hinduism incorporated Buddha and then distanced the religion

In ‘Ancient India’, Upinder Singh tells readers to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of coexistence of contradictions.

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Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.