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  • “Why live where landslides can nearly kill you?”

    This is Southasia Weekly, your regular update on the latest from Himal and across the region. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it.Himal brings you grounded reportage and analysis on Southasian politics and culture. Help us keep doing it. Support independent Southasian journalism Hi roots1952,In “Called by the Hills: A Home…

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  • I am a Brahmin, my wife a Chishti & a Mysorean Rajput. Our son is an Indian: Sitaram Yechury

    In his Rajya Sabha farewell speech on 10 August 2017, Sitaram Yechury spoke about living in a post-truth period, where ‘objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’ Sitaram Yechury 15 September, 2024 12:10 pm IST https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/great-speeches/i-am-a-brahmin-my-wife-a-chishti-a-mysorean-rajput-our-son-is-an-indian-sitaram-yechury/2268321/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 2 Follow Us : Text Size: A-A+ When Swami Vivekananda talks…

  • Genocide In The Foreground, World War Looming In The Background

    Caitlin Johnstone Sep 13, 2024 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): If I were to describe our present geopolitical situation in ten words or less it would be “Genocide in the foreground, world war looming in the background.”  While attention is justifiably focused on the present horrors in Gaza and…

  • The Modern Mess of Politics

    Is History Repeating Itself? Dr Ioannis Syrigos May 31, 2024 We live in an era where information technology and the internet reign supreme, the dissemination of news has become instantaneous and pervasive. This unprecedented connectivity has laid bare the inner workings of political systems worldwide, often revealing a landscape that appears chaotic and dysfunctional. The transparency afforded by…

  • Viruses Play A Leading Role In Humanity’s Story, And Not As A Villain

    How the microbes that make us sick also helped us evolve. Rob Juárez for Noema Magazine FeaturePhilosophy & Culture By Carrie ArnoldJuly 3, 2024 FacebookTwitterEmail Carrie Arnold is a contributing writer for Noema based in Virginia. Sixty-six million years ago, a massive space rock collided with Earth and turned our planet into a smoking hellscape. This…

  • Ramachandra Guha: On André Béteille’s 90th birthday, a tribute to the wisest man in India

    He has spent his life studying the production and reproduction of social inequality. Ramachandra Guha Sep 08, 2024 · 08:00 am Andre Beteille receives the Padma Bhushan award from the President APJ Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on March 28, 2005. | President’s Secretariat (GODL-India), GODL-India via Wikimedia Commons The Indian scholar I most admire, Professor…

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