Oeuvre of Paul Auster explores cities and men of the times
The news of the death of American writer Paul Auster on 30 April at the age of 77 was sudden. Though ailing from cancer, the end is always unexpected.
The news of the death of American writer Paul Auster on 30 April at the age of 77 was sudden. Though ailing from cancer, the end is always unexpected.
According to a report by UNESCO, climate change and human activities like illegal wood cutting and agricultural encroachment have led to a massive decline in the hectares of forest that cover the surface of the earth.
Central to this verdict was the Court's decision to lift a ban on overhead power lines spanning 99,000 square kilometres in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Ramachandaran visited China many times from 2013–19 and was a journalist in China with China Daily, Global Times and China-India Dialogue from 2008–2016, thus well placed for an objective view of the bilateral relationship.
Rabindranath Tagore’s contributions to the eclectic realm of art, literature, and culture have served as inspiration not only to Bengalis but to the entire nation and to the world at large as well.
Speak of Segu outside Segu, but do not speak of Segu in Segu.
Well, April has descended on us, and the words return to haunt. Today I ponder the cruelty that we have let loose. Cruelty of different hues. Of the worst kind is the cruelty we have subjected nature to
Rousseau writes in The Social Contract, “The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”
On the day of the incident, the closest Met stations recorded a maximum temperature of 34–38 °C, along with a relatively high humidity (45 per cent), exacerbating the impact of the heat.
The year 2023 was the hottest year on record, with a global mean temperature of 1.45 °C above pre-industrial values. Due to El Niño conditions in 2023, all days were more than 1ºC above the pre-industrial level
