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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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  • If Trump wins, an unstoppable force is about to meet an unmovable object. Yascha Mounk Oct 31, 2024 Help me bring this Substack to German and French (and perhaps Italian and Spanish and….?) audiences! I am looking for someone who can help oversee the translation of my weekly columns and conversations to other languages. You…


  • Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China. 22 October 2024 Download PDF Foreword Wang Hui (born in 1959) is a professor of Chinese language and literature at Tsinghua University as well as the director of…


  • October 19, 20247:56 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday Scott SimonListen· 6:32 NPR’s Scott Simon asks Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about his new collection, “Forest of Noise,” and about the conflict in Gaza. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We’re going to ask Mosab Abu Toha to read the beginning of his poem “Younger Than War.” MOSAB ABU…


  • Updated on October 20, 202413 min read Ingram Pinn’s illustration taken from Financial Times. By Peter M Johansen The United States’ unipolar world is crumbling. The change is happening faster than expected for Washington. And in connection with this, the white West’s dominance which has lasted over 500 years, is disappearing. This dominance is based on genocide across multiple…


  • It comprises diverse communities. The idea of a monolithic bloc is common to both the BJP and the Opposition Written by Yogendra YadavUpdated: October 22, 2024 13:12 IST 8 min read The rise of the BJP riding on vicious anti-Muslim vitriolic, cannot but push India’s largest religious minority into a corner. “Republican Party doesn’t care for…


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