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Grappling with a counterfeit reality

Recently, the New York State University in the US initiated a programme called ‘NYU in real life’, to promote a student-led culture change of spending less time online and more in living life in person, and creating together a ‘collective effervescence’.

Inherited aspirations and the obligations of freedom

Washington Square Park, New York City, 4 July 2024. Countless flags adorn the place. People are singing, chanting, loudly expressing their views, as is their inviolable right enshrined in the American constitution, on this 248th anniversary of the day America declared its independence.