Kishore Singh Solanki/Ajmer

The shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti at Ajmer has a special visitor this week. Pandit Vidya Devi, a seer of the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, Assam, which is one of the Sharda Peeths – the seat of divine femininity – offered prayers and a chadar at the mausoleum of the Sufi saint.

Shankar Kumar

“A commander who becomes overconfident, underestimates opponents or ignores changing circumstances exposes himself to defeat,” Sun Tzu, a Chinese military strategist, said in his classic treatise ‘The Art of War.’

New Delhi