New armour for an age-old battle
Alas, slowly will Tamil perish/As languages of the West flourish.” This was a Tamil poet's fear in the early 20th century.
Alas, slowly will Tamil perish/As languages of the West flourish.” This was a Tamil poet's fear in the early 20th century.
India’s economic ambitions rest on its ability to foster a generation of entrepreneurs willing to take risks, build industries, and create jobs.
Mathematization of economics propelled the discipline of political economy to the pedestal of pure science making it a complex discipline. The fact that economic theories can never be proved by scientific experiments is enough to show that it cannot be categorized as a ‘science’ subject.
In a move that is bound to reignite debates over national identity, immigration, and inclusivity, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring English as the official language of the United States.
Tamil Nadu’s political landscape is once again dominated by a familiar debate ~ Hindi imposition. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has revived the decades-old resistance against the language, making it a central theme ah ead of next year’s assembly elections.
The pressure to do more, given the proliferation of malicious, agenda-driven users of social media and online platforms, is growing. This is especially true of developing nations which have borne the brunt of transnational and domestic (mis)information flow as a potent tool of fifth-generation warfare (5GW) ~ from promoting enmity between communities to encouraging the use of violence, and blatant defamation.
Since the overwhelming exodus of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh in 2017, the Rohingya problem has gained attention. To continue housing…
The reports of the Shah Nawaz Committee and Khosla Commission were rejected by Prime Minister Morarji Desai in 1978 in Parliament. Nevertheless, a campaign of falsehood continued at other levels. The latest is that those who, after Mukherjee Commission's findings, vociferously argued against the crash theory have now taken a complete U-turn. They say that there is nothing to show that Netaji was alive after 18 August 1945.
A sense of drift in what was once a cohesive grouping, the Association of South East Asian States Nations (Asean), was discernible in Phnom Penh last week as Cambodia hosted the Asean summit marking its 55th anniversary. The summit itself went off smoothly enough. Compared to the last time Cambodia held the ASEAN chair in 2012, there was a welcome absence of rancour.
Vice-President Kamala Harris’ visit to the Philippines may well have restored some equilibrium to the relationship between the two countries, after the stormy Duterte years which saw the former Filipino president apparently tilt towards China after announcing his “independence” from the United States.
