In an age where customs and traditions, faith and beliefs, everything is marketed, the tremendous hype created around the Mahakumbha Mela that took place in the months of January-February 2025 was ...

Ever since India gained sovereign independence in 1947, election campaigns have been a regular affair with various political parties putting forward their candidates, policies and programmes to try ...

This paper explores why civilisational states exhibit cooperative values in trade and exchange. It highlights an irony where the decline of liberal states might have been expected to weaken trade ties ...

Trump’s recent onslaught on Harvard University has a political perspective. To put it in the words of a political scientist, Jason Johnson, based in Maryland: “Their goal is to intimidate and break ...

Colonel Sophia Qureshi is the face of Indian nationalism, not the face of Hindu nationalism which was made to hide behind this hastily borrowed mukhota (mask)! A Hindu nationalist government found it ...

Channels commonly labelled as ‘Godi media’ in local parlance have prioritised ratings over responsibility, thus eroding their credibility forever. During this conflict escalations, some of the ...

The illusion of freedom, being called the queen of the house, masks the reality that important decisions are still made by men. The problem is not merely that men make decisions; it’s that women are ...

What do we actually mean by learning something? Is it memorising facts, writing exams, getting a good job, or achieving a certain social status? I know a doctor who has been practising medicine for ...

On the fateful day of 18 September 2001, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki announced the shutdown of all independent and private media houses in the state. Large number of journalists and government ...

Every 28 May, we observe World Menstrual Hygiene Day, a time to underline the significance of menstrual health. In some parts of the world, we imagine women living free from taboos and stigma ...

Museums displaying cultural objects and artifacts however have travelled through a phase in their lives when the sole purpose of collecting and displaying cultural objects was to preserve them as they ...

This is not an economy for the people—it is an economy for profit, pomp, and propaganda. In a country where 80 crore people depend on free ration schemes for their daily survival, celebrating global ...