Political experimentation with Financial Stability?

Finance Ministers, as clichés go, perform “balancing acts”, “tight rope walk” and “juggle” with numbers.  Pranab Mukherjee and his team – the annual numbers exercise, the budget having been done with  --  are now playing magicians. Here’s the rabbit they have pulled out of nothing. FSDC: Financial Stability Development Council.

Vignettes from the Kumbh

The Kumbh is an experience. Shared by millions. As I discovered at the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj in 2001, it can be an intense experience.

Namaste
It was a bright afternoon. Sunshine gloriously gushed into our tent on the banks of Ganga. We were lazing around, exchanging notes on what the Kumbh Mela had meant for each of us. The conversation veered towards God. An ideal subject in the setting we were in. 

... From Friend to Sage

After an amazing fluke meeting our correspondent Raman Nanda recounts the personal story of a Sadhu...

As we sat talking to a group of Sadhus, I was acutely aware of this awesome looking one -- tall, white robes, beard touching his knees and wild Naga-like matted hair. He called me by my name. I turned to him in wonder and amusement. “God! One of those Sadhus, who are supposed to be divine and all!”