Announcements almost every other day compel us to believe that India is now the fifth largest economy in the world; that India will be a $5 trillion economy very soon; that India will be the third largest economy of the world in 2027, and that India will become a developed nation in 2047.
Caste dynamics often play a pivotal role, especially in a state as politically significant as Uttar Pradesh.
The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has for the past four years been a tangled web of politics, power struggles, and international finger-pointing.
the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) refused to recognise the current geological time as the Anthropocene (Human) Epoch because adding an Anthropocene Epoch ~ and terminating the Holocene Epoch ~ was not supported by geological standards used to define epochs.
There is a raging memefest in the Arab world about the Jordanian King Abdullah II. One of the most caustic meme images is of the Arab King wearing an Israeli Military uniform.
While those in favour of re-establishing Indo-Pak trading say that doing so could usher in economic benefits and foster peace constituencies, they ignore the logic for disengaging with India.
Manual labour is needed in agriculture, manufacturing and construction among other areas. If we do not need any more people in these areas, we can lend them to other nations.
The planet is undergoing an ecological emergency; we’ve started experiencing powerful heat waves, droughts, fires and record rains.
To understand why the world’s only Jewish state would be keen on ties with a Sunni Muslim theocratic kingdom is important to make sense of US diplomacy in the region.
It is preposterous to imagine that these institutions of higher learning have proceeded from conclusion to premise, a matrix that flies in the face of advancement of learning.
