- In Mint, Patricia Mukhim explains why the recent amendment to the Citizenship Act has upset two decades of relative peace in India’s North East.
- The amendment to the Citizenship Act is not, and never has been, about protecting persecuted minorities in other countries. It is about persecuting our own, argues Mihir Sharma on ndtv.com.
- The news citizenship rules cannot be overruled by an abstract invocation of theoretical secularism. Principles need to be married to lived realities and actual group anxieties, writes Suhas Palshikar in the Indian Express.
- What should India do to fix its economy? TK Arun has a few tips for the Modi government in the Economic Times.
- Is India staring at stagflation, asks Ajit Ranade in the Mumbai Mirror.
- In the West, culture is now overshadowing economics as the main pole of politics, writes Yashcha Mounk in the Atlantic.
- The General Election in the United Kingdom was a de-facto second referendum on Brexit – which the Conservatives won by a landslide, bringing to an end the country’s social democratic system in place since WWII, writes Matt Seaton in the New York Review of Books.
- American meritocracy emphasises the power of the individual to overcome obstacles, but the real story is quite a different one, explains David Labaree in Aeon.
- In the Immanent Frame, Akeel Bilgrami argues agains the concept of scientism: an overreach in the name of science, taking it to a place beyond its proper dominion.
- Imbuing robots with a will to survive would the fastes way to give them something close to what humans would call feelings, argues Tom Siegfred in Science News.
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‘Tanaav 2’ review: Truncated season leaves us hanging
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Madhabi Buch exercised ICICI Bank stock options to get shares worth Rs 10.3 crore after joining SEBI
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‘When He so willed, He birthed the universe’: Guru Nanak’s hymns get a new English translation
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2024 JCB Prize for Literature longlist: Five translations, four debut novels on the list
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How Gatoes navigated poor internet to pioneer food delivery across Kashmir
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Madhya Pradesh: Woman raped on busy street in Ujjain, passersby record video without intervening
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Why a professor from Belgium was branded ‘anti-India’ after Delhi lecture on 18th-century Dutch text
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Makrand Mehta (1931-2024): Historian who studied a period of tumultuous change in Gujarat
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‘Call Me Bae’ review: A poor little rich woman’s coming of age is skin-deep
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Crime fiction: Retired cricket umpire Russi Batliwala investigates a high-profile murder