Vanishing voices that predict a larger crisis
In 2008, a linguist named David Harrison travelled deep into the forests of Siberia searching for speakers of an almost forgotten language called Chulym.
In 2008, a linguist named David Harrison travelled deep into the forests of Siberia searching for speakers of an almost forgotten language called Chulym.
For more than two decades, India’s nuclear doctrine has been treated as a settled matter.
For generations, Indian society has perfected a contradiction.
The question remains even today: on what legal basis can the Jana Sangh or the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh conclusively be called fascist? They were accused of being anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, but these accusations were never decisively established in legal terms.
On 8 June, a US federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling it an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.
The 2,640-km-long Durand Line is more than just a frontier. It is a century-old scar on the map of South Asia - a scar that has bled into three Anglo-Afghan wars, the Cold War, the Taliban’s rise, and today’s great power rivalries. For the Afghan Pashtun, this line is not history.
This Diwali, India’s relationship with gold revealed something deeper than economics.
The “No Kings” demonstrations that swept through American cities last weekend signified far more than political theatre.
The recent award of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2025) to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for their work on innovation-driven growth and the idea of “creative destruction” offers a critical lens through which to view the national endeavour embodied in Mission Karmayogi.
Blessed are those who make others laugh. These uncommon people, gifted with a sense of humour and comic timing, are treated as jokers but the fact remains that they make the world a much better place to live in. India needs more of them.
