Tyrants have a playbook for avoiding blame. Trump follows it
Salonby Andrea Mazzarino·21d ago
In my decades as a cultural anthropologist studying authoritarianism in Russia and the United States, I’ve learned that one of power’s most useful tricks is making responsibility vanish.
Enna Vilai Movie Review: A compelling question trapped in a meandering legal drama
New Indian Expressby Avinash Ramachandran·21d ago
Enna Vilai Movie Review: Luxury. In a society that is built on differences, hierarchies, and divisions, one’s necessity is another’s luxury, and one’s luxury is another’s necessity.
What 1,000 Women Workers Can Teach Us About Surviving Extreme Heat
Timeby Satchit Balsari·21d ago
On Sept. 2, 2026, the United Nations Environment Program report, Limiting Overshoot, declared that the world has fallen short of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and...
Why India resisted the Caribbean diaspora’s attempts to return home
Scroll.inby Ajay Kamalakaran·21d ago
Almost as soon as Anand Mohan Sahay took charge as India’s commissioner in the British colony of Trinidad in 1950, he began receiving Indian-origin visitors seeking repatriation to India.
'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
ABC News Australiaby Sara Tomevska·21d ago
In short: The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies.
Delhi houses the remnants of 18 empires, and this website helps you trace them all
The Hinduby Jaideep Deo Bhanj·21d ago
In Delhi, a city where you can choose the route for your early-morning run based on which century’s ruins you want to run alongside, and where a 500-year-old Mughal-era mausoleum can nonchalantly...
Telangana's quiet double-engine Sarkar — Part 2: The politics of pretend opposition
The South Firstby Dr Narasimha Reddy Donthi·21d ago
Part 1 of this series looked at how closely Telangana’s Congress government has mirrored BJP-style policy and infrastructure — a Central bill replicated almost without debate, a flagship river...
Where India stands after the BRICS dance
National Heraldby Ashok Swain·21d ago
Where India stands after the BRICS dance Ashok Swain on why non-alignment by another name does not carry conviction Sensing that geopolitical winds may once again be changing direction, the Modi...
Remembering Kweku Amafegha and the saga of OPL 245, By Osmund Agbo
Premium Timesby Ololade Bamidele·21d ago
He smiled, extended his hand and clasped mine firmly. “My name is Kweku,” he said, with the quiet assurance of a man entirely at ease in his own skin. The name struck me as familiar.
Joseph Tegbe’s panic response to power sector reform, By Adeola Akinremi
Premium Timesby Premium Times·21d ago
In Ayn Rand’s mystery story, the Atlas Shrugged, there is something Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, can absorb: reason.
From Tom Thumb to Abraham Lincoln, these unlikely heroes gave to Irish famine relief
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·21d ago
During the Irish Famine of the 1840s, an extraordinary wave of generosity swept across the globe as people from every continent responded to Ireland's humanitarian crisis.
Dublin's Thomas Barnardo pioneered modern child welfare more than a century ago
IrishCentral.comby Stephen Roberts·21d ago
Thomas Barnardo was born in Dublin in 1845 and became one of Britain's most influential philanthropists, founding a groundbreaking children's charity that revolutionized how society cared for...
Japan has record 100,000 people aged over 100: How societies are ageing
Al Jazeeraby Caolán Magee·21d ago
Japan is now home to more than 100,000 people aged 100 or older, marking a new longevity milestone for a country confronting an accelerating demographic crisis.
Douglas Stuart, author: ‘If you’ve ever known poverty, you never forget it’
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·21d ago
This was an interview designed to avoid mentioning Donald Trump. Douglas Stuart’s literature — and his life, which is inextricably linked to it — provides ample material for hours of conversation...
Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·21d ago
Among so many faces, Roberto Mosquera remembered one in particular the day he arrived in Eswatini, a small country tucked away in southern Africa.
A chainsaw pause to improve re-election hopes
Buenos Aires Timesby Marcelo J. García·21d ago
For weeks there has been an internal debate in the Casa Rosada about what to do to improve President Javier Milei’s re-election chances.
Arc from Kazan to Delhi via Tianjin
New Indian Expressby Ren Yan·21d ago
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi was the third between the two leaders in three years.
The eve of destruction, perhaps
Buenos Aires Timesby James Neilson·21d ago
They wish us well. They tell us they are good people who want to do what is right because it is right and that, if we trust them, they will shower us with benefits: lots of money and electronic...
'Nation witnessing cultural renaissance under Modi': Defence Min Rajnath Singh at Kochi event
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·21d ago
KOCHI: India is witnessing a cultural and civilisational renaissance under Prime Minister Modi and the country is shedding the colonial mindset, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday.
‘Robust streak of common sense’: How Sree Narayana Guru’s biographer Shashi Tharoor sees his subject
Scroll.inby Mohd Farhan·21d ago
The Sage Who Reimagined Hinduism is Shashi Tharoor’s account of one of the most intriguing spiritual leaders and social reformers of modern India, Sree Narayana Guru.
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