Month: April 2022
‘Ghabrana Chor Doh’ (Video)
From ‘Ghabrana Nahi’ (Don’t be afraid) to ‘Ghabrana Chor Doh’ (Doff fear) is the battlecry…
A Theory of Why We’re All Going Nuts Online
Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis: On January 6, 2021, Samuel Camargo posted a video on…
Pakistan Victim of U.S. Meddling to Contain China’s Rise
“Yes, I feel the change has been abetted by USA, but even they must be…
Neuroscience Gets in the Way of Appreciating Art
Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the stranger…
Amartya Sen on Identity, Decolonization and How to Change the World
Amartya Sen recently spoke from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the New Statesman’s ideas editor, Gavin…
Why The Past 10 Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have…
Julian Assange Interviews Imran Khan (Video)
“Just watch this, and you will know why what happened. History almost repeating itself,” an…
India’s Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare
Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana in Scientific American: Last month, while most of the…
Finland and Sweden Inch Toward NATO
“The problem isn’t that NATO enlargement went too far, the problem is that NATO enlargement…
A Lake in Florida Is Suing to Protect Itself
Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks…
Bangladesh Has Become a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
By Claudia Sadoff in IPS: A decade ago, not even one in four rural women…
UAE Requires $671bln Investments to Achieve Carbon Neutrality
The UAE will require 2.5 trillion dirhams ($671.1 billion) in investments to transition to carbon…