BY MARIA POPOVA A century and a half after Novalis declared that laboratories will be temples, the poet turned marine biologist Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) consecrated science in her lyrical writings about the natural world. At the center of her creative cosmogony was a vital symbiosis between literature and science in illuminating the nature of…

The CJI was speaking at a Supreme Court function on the occasion of the inauguration of the Diamond Jubilee Year of the establishment of the country’s top court. India NewsPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: January 28, 2024 6:24 pm IST CJI DY Chandrachud said that women can now be seen in important positions in India New…

JAN 29 ∙ GUEST POST A confrontation with a Proud Boy on August 21, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images.)Last week, a widely-circulated analysis in the Financial Times confirmed what many researchers had long suspected: The ideological gap between men and women is growing.Over the past fifteen years, men across the globe…

In Linda Grant’s ‘When I Lived in Modern Times’, glimpses of the origins of the seemingly intractable Ramachandra Guha 7 hours ago Trawling through one of Bangalore’s wonderful second-hand bookstores, I came across a novel called When I Lived in Modern Times. I had not heard of the author, Linda Grant, but the title intrigued me,…

BYNEIL LARSEN Cloaked in an impenetrable jargon, “decoloniality” dehistoricizes and culturalizes colonialism. It’s a political and intellectual dead end for socialists. Oil painting of the capture of Incan emperor Atahualpa and the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in 1532, by Peruvian painter Juan Lepiani, circa 1920–27. (Lima Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons) Our new…