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.
For decades, the Korean peninsula has been trapped in a cycle of lofty promises and bitter stalemates. Demands for North Korea to surrender its nuclear arsenal have consistently met with defiance, while each new round of sanctions or military drills has only hardened Pyongyang’s resolve.
The worldwide economic uncertainty ~ caused by Donald Trump’s shenanigans ~ has made Western countries focus on their declining populations, which has seriously eroded their manufacturing and consumer bases.
One of the most contentious policies of the Trump administration was just announced: a $100,000 fee to apply for an H1B visa.
Kolkata has once again found itself submerged ~ literally and figuratively ~ beneath a torrent of rain and the weight of its own urban vulnerabilities.
Saudi Arabia’s decision to formalise a mutual defence pact with Pakistan is more than a ceremonial embrace; it is a calculated signal of shifting power equations in the wider Asian neighbourhood.