The fight over Cauvery: ‘Jewel among maidens, the life force of civilisation’

Long, long ago, when time was a river, there lived a rishi called Kavera. He had a daughter named Lopamudra. She was married to the sage Agastya, who kept her in his kamandalu. Once when a famine stalked the land, Lord Brahma took the form of a crow and tipped the kamandalu. And out fell Kavera’s daughter — Kaveri — who took the form of a river to bring relief and prosperity. The Skanda Purana and Agni Purana tell the story a little
differently. In some tellings, Kavera is a king; and Lopamudra, a representation of Vishnu’s maya, has twin manifestations of a human and holy water. In all of them, Kaveri, or Cauvery, assumes the state of a river goddess with immense capacity to love and nurture. Not surprisingly, she is counted among the seven sacred rivers invoked in the nitya vandana sloka, Gange cha Yamune chaiva Godavari Saraswati/ Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidham kuru.



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No More Peace Talks, Majority Of Indians Want To Use Military To Fight Terror

India might love its soft power, but Indians favour getting tough with the world. A majority (62 per cent) Indians believe using overwhelming military force is the best way to defeat terrorism, while a similar number of Indians (63%) want to increase defense spending.

The annual Pew Research Center's survey of the state of the nation found two-thirds of the Indian public satisfied with the direction of the country and eight-in-ten think the economy is doing well. Prime minister Narendra Modi's favourable rating remains high, at 81 per cent, even though its down from 87 per cent in 2015. Bruce Stokes, director global economic attitudes at Pew told TOI, "These figures are striking. Modi is doing better than Obama in the US or Angela Merkel in Germany."


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