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 Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse, with consequences for food, water and livelihoods across the region.
The latest salvo of trade measures from Washington reveals a strategy that is less about correcting trade deficits and more about reshaping the geography of global production.
The retirement of India’s MiG-21 fighter marks the end of an era that shaped the country’s military identity as much as its strategic choices.
The recent decision by the United States to raise the H-1B visa fee to an unprecedented $100,000 per worker is another reminder of how disruptive economic nationalism can be when it collides with the realities of a global economy.
The sudden passing of Zubeen Garg has left Assam and much of India grappling with a loss that goes far beyond the departure of a celebrated musician.
