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A linguist beyond borders

For someone who had spent most of his life studying constructed languages, the idea of constructing his own death would certainly have amused him. The flood of social media posts and the exchange of messages among Esperantists and linguists from across the world soon confirmed that this was no joke.

Accepting reality

Five years after Myanmar's military seized power and plunged the country into a prolonged civil conflict, a new reality is emerging across Asia.

Heritage queried

The controversy surrounding the Delhi Gymkhana Club is no longer only about one institution in Lutyens’ Delhi.

Nostalgia will not build chips

India stands at a critical juncture. In an era defined by data, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and rapid technological change, scientific temper, the habit of evidence-based thinking, scepticism, rigorous testing of claims, and public reasoning, is not a luxury but a foundational civic capacity.

Viral Frontiers

The World Health Organization’s decision to classify the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as an international public health emergency is not merely a medical alert.