- In the New Yorker, Adam Kirsh explains how Millman Perry proved that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by the same person.
- In the Guardian, Mark Blyth asks: The G7 helped to build this low-tax world. Are they really ready to change it?
- In the Harvard Political Review, Tarun Timalsina interview Steven Pinker on effective altrusim.
- In a crisis, India’s Modi could always change the narrative, writes Mujib Mashal in the New York Times. Then came Covid.
- The demolition of National Archives annexe is an avoidable tragedy argues Neeti Nair in the Indian Express.
- The Chinese economy is a clear winner from Covid-19 while India is an also-ran, argues Shankar Acharya in the Business Standard.
- Shukto, a distinctly bitter stew made with a medley of vegetables, is one of the most iconic dishes of the Bengali kitchen. But, there is no one way to make food laced with sentimentality writes Priyadarshini Chatterjee in the Mint.
- Why did Sikh protesters storm the Red Fort in Delhi in January? In Journal 18, historian Abhishek Kaicker explains how history from the eighteenth century informs memory in the twenty first in driving modern politics.
- In the Business Standard, TCS Raghavan reviews a new biography of Mohamed Ali Jinnah by Pakistani lawyer and commentator Yasser Latif Hamdani.
- Does the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson play dumb in order to cleverly play a populist role in a country seeing a backlash against globalisation? Tom McTague argues the case in the Atlantic.
- After emerging poor and devastated from its independence struggle 50 years ago, Bangladesh has managed to become a global paragon of economic development. Arvind Subramanian in Project Syndicate explains how.
- The rise and fall of American model Chrissy Teigen shows how drastically Twitter changed in the United States over the past decade writes Constance Grady in Vice.
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Seven firms that failed drug quality test gave money to political parties through electoral bonds
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Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India
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Why did a Union minister say he would apply for Indian citizenship under CAA?
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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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India’s latest GDP growth numbers are ‘mystifying’, says former chief economic advisor
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Is shouting 'Pakistan zindabad' illegal? An SC order clarifies
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7 lakh Muslims among the 19 lakh left out of Assam NRC, says CM Himanta Sarma
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Lok Sabha elections: BJP to contest 17 seats in Bihar, JD (U) in the fray from 16 constituencies
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YouTube, X block access in India to documentary on killing of Canadian Sikh separatist leader
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Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’