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Category: Culture

China Declares War Against Pessimists

The authoritarian political system of China allows Beijing to enforce strict discipline. News about the Asian nation that reaches global audiences is heavily filtered because of one of the world’s […]

Celebrating The Power Of Art In Troubled Times

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai with the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2025 on October 9 “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre […]

Between State & People

By Yogendra Yadav When was the last time we had a book of such breadth and depth on Indian politics? I asked myself this question as I finished reading Partha […]

Cleopatra-Era Port Discovered

The death of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who passed away on August 10/12, BCE 30, still remains a mystery. While some scholars hypothesise […]

Witnessing Afterlife Experiences

The curiosity about an afterlife is a universal and persistent human interest, fuelled by religious beliefs, philosophical inquiries and the profound mystery of what happens after death. Many people do […]

On Purity Of Blood

In Jane Austen‘s 1814 novel Mansfield Park, Edmund Bertram tied the nuptial knot with Fanny Price. They were cousins who grew up together. Consanguineous marriage is common, as well as […]