Austria’s Gamble
Austria’s newly formed three-party coalition government is an unusual experiment in European politics.
Austria’s newly formed three-party coalition government is an unusual experiment in European politics.
President Donald Trump’s first address to the US Congress in his second term was not just a policy statement ~ it was a declaration of dominance.
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.
More than four decades ago, the unusually eloquent Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed “a human river, broad and boiling, flowing endlessly, rolling through the main street [of Tehran] from dawn till dusk … a violent flood that in a moment will engulf and drown everything”.
Purdue University is a premier American university located in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Just in the last few days, there has been news of an Indian-American student, Varun Manish Chheda, 20, being stabbed to death there.
Discrimination, injustice and stigma perpetrated against human groups are rampant. Various descriptors are used: racism, apartheid, sectarianism, xenophobia, etc.
Science has advanced but has philosophy retreated to the ivory tower? Economists and historians are taking an ever more visible role in public life but why not philosophers? One of the profound questions that philosophy raises is the question of how one ought to live. Have philosophers and thinkers abandoned their traditional role as critics of our beliefs and practices? If yes, why?
India may have enough reasons to disentangle itself from Russias orbit, even while not embracing the West with undue warmth at this stage, but the truth is that the West is misinterpreting India's position. Ever since the Ukraine war began, it has been India's consistent position in all fora that war and violence must give way to negotiation and peace.
