Greater Jehad
Jalaluddin Rumi in his invaluable masterwork Mathnavi gives us a profound interpretation of this narration. He argues that the very nature of is Greater Jehad is very complicated.



2001 -- A new odyssey
The map of life. Flagging off the biotech century in right earnest, two competing teams -- one lavishly financed by rich governments and the other a private group working with a considerably smaller budget -- announced the decoding of the human genome way ahead of schedule.



Birthday generosity
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana and the Antyodaya Anna Yojana, the first to improve rural connectivity by building more roads to the hinterland, the second to put food on the table for one crore poor families.



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