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Akeel Bilgrami on identity, inner life and stereotyping
Interview with Akeel Bilgrami. Published : Jan 28, 2022 06:00 IST Jipson John Jitheesh P.M. COMMents 0 SHARE READ LATER Akeel Bilgrami. Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian philosopher of international eminence and influence. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, in 1970 and went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he moved…
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Dear friend, Four major multilateral meetings have come and gone. Together, they exposed the increasing brittleness of Western power, the fictitiousness of the “International Rules-Based Order” designed to uphold it, and the blindness of its architects to the system that is slowly dislodging them from their seats in the high castle. In Washington, D.C., the…
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The myths of origin that give the United States its distinctive character and political culture remain potent, in spite of a lack of historical underpinning.John Gast’s 1872 painting, American Progress, an allegorical respresentation of manifest destiny. Credit: GRANGER – Historical Picture Archive / Alamy Stock Photo The myths of origin that become hegemonic within states…
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Bernini’s self-portrait — here 25 years old Gian Lorenzo Bernini was history’s greatest sculptor, and undoubtedly one of its greatest architects. His influence on the Eternal City was so significant that one Pope told him “You were made for Rome, and Rome was made for you.” Yet despite this, his name was largely forgotten —…
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The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many. 31 October 2024 Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu…
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Israel is only conducting occasional atrocities that do not align with US interests, if we are to believe US rhetoric. The Israeli air strike that killed at least 20 children in Beit Lahiya was “a horrifying incident with a horrifying result,” according to US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller. “We have reached out to the Government of…
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