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.
In the long, tumultuous history of India’s path to independence, some episodes stand out for the sheer intensity of human suffering they reveal.
In recent years, many advanced economies from the United States and Britain to France and Japan have taken on ever larger public debts, fuelled by generous welfare commitments, ageing populations and chronic budget deficits.
India’s movie theatres are caught in an uncomfortable paradox. The country produces more films than any other, yet fewer people are turning up to watch them on the big screen.
According to a report tabled in the Lok Sabha by the Minister of State for Finance, per capita net national income (NNI), in 2024-25 at constant prices was a meagre Rs 1,14,710.
Pakistan faced two major protests in recent days. The first was in POK where the public rose in anger against rising costs, exploitation of resources and lack of basic amenities. Protests lasted two weeks, and were brutally crushed with over a dozen (officially reported) killed. Actual figures could be far higher.
