- 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.
Reading
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A government scholarship took them abroad. But then left them in a lurch
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Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in
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Modi leads, Adani follows: Is India’s diplomacy in lockstep with a private group’s global expansion?
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Adding more good-quality protein to the diets of older adults can combat muscle loss
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Will Supreme Court's interim order be sufficient to stay ‘bulldozer justice’?
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How Rakhaldas Banerji, who discovered the antiquity of Mohenjodaro, was embroiled in idol theft
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‘Jo Tera Hai Woh Mera Hai’ review: An easy-going comedy about a Mumbai house capture
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2024 Booker Prize: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels, 5 of them by women authors
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The US took decades to act against these toxic chemicals. India should not wait
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Chess Olympiad 2024: India beat Iran for eighth win in a row in open event; women lose to Poland