Category: Opinion
Gandhi on 7 Social Sins, and a Manto Quote
Gandhi published the list in 1925. He also gave the list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, on a piece of paper before his assassination.
Becoming Lula
Lula, a new biography of Brazil’s current third-term president, describes the tension on the morning of April 7, 2018.
How to Excape From a Maze
Assume you know nothing about the First World War, but had heard the name and wish to learn about it. Reasonably, you turn to…
New Era: Social Media Platforms and AI Challenging Mainstream Narrative
“The media is not all about state-of-the-art technology and the use of AI, but about…
I Said No to $20,000 Because Writers Must Take a Moral Stand on AI
And yet so many others said yes. It began earlier this year, when someone I respect and like reached out to me. Their offer?
Should India Speak a Single Language?
The Indian government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
Paul Rulkens: Why the Majority is Always Wrong
Paul Rulkens is an expert in achieving big goals in the easiest, fastest and most…
What Does Democracy Look Like?
That we associate democracy with political demonstration is no surprise. After all, democracy is the rule of the people, and…
The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself
Why people talk out loud to themselves is to deal with “situations that are novel or highly stressful, or…
Ayad Akhtar Wants Writers to Reckon with AI
McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, focuses on an egocentric, self-destructive…
America and the World
(T)he period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and the election of Donald Trump exactly thirty-five years later comes to constitute an ‘era’…
Fighting the Far Right in India
Sarah Thankam Mathews at Lux converses with Raghu Karnad on the Hindu nationalist right and the trial of Arundhati Roy.