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Knock, Knock… Who’s Fluent?
Imagine if learning a new language didn’t feel like staring at a boring textbook or memorizing a list of verbs that you’ll never use. What if it felt more like hitting “Play” on your favorite song or starting a new level in a video game? Forget the “School” Way Right now, adults spend a lot…
It all goes back to Columbus
Trump recently said Europeans would ‘all be speaking German’ had America not ‘won’ WWII. By oversight or design, he didn’t acknowledge Britain’s and Soviet Union’s big role in wresting Allied victory. Also ignored was the historical context and pillars of US’s postwar might. Emerging from WWII as a global superpower, US needed and cultivated transatlantic…
To judge or not to judge
Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, is a strong contender at this year’s Oscars. It is a heart-wrenching fiction about Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (or Anne), and the event that allegedly inspired the play Hamlet: the loss of their only son, Hamnet, at the age of eleven. Agnes never forgives her husband for being absent…
When not choosing is a choice
By Sonal Srivastava In Indic epistemological parlance, abhava , absence, is not a mere void. It is a distinct way of examining reality through the lens of nonexistence. Take, for instance, the air inside a pot. When the pot is merely a lump of clay, air inside the pot is absent but only in a…
From food security to food leadership
As India rises economically, its food processing sector must move to create global value – transforming farm surplus to innovation, opportunity and competitiveness India stands at a defining economic juncture. As the nation advances toward becoming the world’s third-largest economy, growth can no longer be measured solely in aggregate output. It must increasingly be assessed…
‘Not imposing anything on Ukraine… Territorial issues could be solved through direct Zelenskyy-Putin talks’: Steve Witkoff
Kyiv: Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a gathering of the Yalta European Strategy here that resolving territorial issues in the Russia-Ukraine war could be left to a direct meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin. Joining online from Washington and touting a possible future trilateral between the leaders of US, Ukraine and Russia, Witkoff asserted that…
Jeffrey and me
As more Big Names are linked to Epstein, the needle of suspicion moves closer home Shortly after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Randy Andy Andrew, was arrested by the police for his close association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates suddenly quit the AI summit in Delhi where he was scheduled to make…
Where we goofed up in spirituality
Last evening, I overheard a couple of seemingly learned men immersed in an avid discussion as I took my daily stroll by the poolside. Their topic, quite to my mind’s delight, was the soul. But the treatment they meted out to it was mindless enough to quickly turn my delight into sheer dismay. The diabolical…