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No country for Chigurh, Lecter
April 18, 2026, 9:00 AM IST
Norman Bates in Psycho, Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. We owe our understanding and dread of ‘psychopaths’ to these bad men. But Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen,…
April 18, 2026, 9:00 AM IST
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Power struggles of the electric kind
April 4, 2026, 7:54 AM IST
Who keeps the lights on? Who benefits from how electricity is governed? Who bears the cost? That’s what Nikki Luke explores in Electric Life : Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy . High electricity bills increase cost…
April 4, 2026, 7:54 AM IST
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When Saving Mothers Isn’t A Good Deed
March 21, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
Troubling politics of global elite’s approach to women’s health Over the past two decades, women’s health has claimed a prominent place on the global stage. Govts, multilateral agencies, and philanthropic foundations have poured in billions…
March 21, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
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Should older people be 2nd-class voters?
March 14, 2026, 8:38 AM IST
Why do young people everywhere seem disenchanted with govt? A 2021 OECD survey shows only 37% in 18-29 age group trust govt, as against 46% in 50+ cohort. In S Korea, the gap widens to…
March 14, 2026, 8:38 AM IST
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War and prince: An unfinished kingdom
March 7, 2026, 7:33 AM IST
American journalist Karen Elliott House has been going to Saudi Arabia for nearly 50 years. She has had a firsthand view of the kingdom’s evolution, plus conversations with different kings, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Saudi religious police,…
March 7, 2026, 7:33 AM IST
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Why lithium is not the answer to oil
February 28, 2026, 8:20 AM IST
Because we can’t consume the earth to save it Lithium came into existence minutes after the Big Bang. Stars still produce lithium. How it accumulates on earth, given that it’s an unstable element always bound…
February 28, 2026, 8:20 AM IST
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Why & How Wars Will Never End
February 21, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
And with AI, the way nations fight will get nastier In late 1940s, many pundits believed that World War 2 would be the last large-scale military conflict. With the clarion call of “never again”, it…
February 21, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
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What We Lose When We Give Up Reading…
February 14, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
…The very foundations of modern society There’s a 15-year-old YouTube video, showing a toddler scrolling and clicking on an iPad. She tries those moves on magazines, and gives up, perhaps concluding that a magazine is…
February 14, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
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Frankenstein Doesn’t Feel 200 Years Old
February 7, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
Even if Mary’s creature is now Guillermo’s An adaptation of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a Best Picture nominee for the Oscars, for the first time ever. But in the two centuries since Mary…
February 7, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
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Earth Is Not A Chessboard
January 31, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
Global power competition begets climate disaster Trump threatens to take over Greenland, but backs down – for the moment. His tariffs roil global markets and supply chains. Middle powers are rushing to find a new…
January 31, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
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Three biases that make us human
January 24, 2026, 8:54 AM IST
Conformity, religiosity (minus god), tribalism Using his fortune of $200bn (2024 figures) Musk could build 1,000 Great Pyramids, writes Harvey Whitehouse in Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World . Whitehouse is only prodding readers to question…
January 24, 2026, 8:54 AM IST
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Cats or cars, what should matter more?
January 17, 2026, 7:13 AM IST
If an ant is drowning in a puddle, should you try to save it, bioethicist Jeff Sebo asks in an article. If yes, is your decision based on Indian tradition, which teaches that all life manifests God,…
January 17, 2026, 7:13 AM IST
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When your religion is Liberalism
January 10, 2026, 8:22 AM IST
When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back, Hegel said. Following this precept enables Alexandre Lefebvre, professor of politics and philosophy, to float against the zeitgeist centred on bemoaning the rise of…
January 10, 2026, 8:22 AM IST
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When Your Religion Is Liberalism
January 10, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
It tells you what is good, normal, worthwhile in life When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back, Hegel said. Following this precept enables Alexandre Lefebvre, professor of politics and philosophy,…
January 10, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
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Why Shrink Bots spell trouble
January 3, 2026, 7:36 AM IST
AI in psychiatry is expected to deliver big – “whatever ails psychiatry, AI promises a cure” – writes Daniel Oberhaus in The Silicon Shrink, How Artificial Intelligence Made The World An Asylum. Big tech, not…
January 3, 2026, 7:36 AM IST
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Autocrats’ BFFs: Elites with a grudge
December 27, 2025, 8:04 AM IST
More often than not, we tend to associate autocratic regimes with a cult of personalities. Think Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin. However, no autocrat rules alone. They are all supported by an elite that actually props…
December 27, 2025, 8:04 AM IST
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Autocrats’ BFFs: Elites With A Grudge
December 27, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Envy, cynicism, nostalgia drive the privileged to demagogues More often than not, we tend to associate autocratic regimes with a cult of personalities. Think Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin. However, no autocrat rules alone. They are…
December 27, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Imagine There’s No Country, No Money
December 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Tesla boss said some profound stuff in his two podcasts Why is Elon Musk on a podcasting spree? Two shows he has appeared in the last two weeks are Nikhil Kamath’s People by WTF and…
December 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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An Intelligent & Caring Guide To ‘Idiots’
November 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Power & prejudice define what we mean by mental disability Simon Jarrett, a nursing assistant in the 1980s in a south England hospital for the mentally ill, recoiled when he read the file of his…
November 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Silicon Valley Didn’t Turn Right, We Read It Wrong
November 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Its old liberal face was a triumph of PR Remember when Elon Musk was in Hillary Clinton’s camp? He said Trump didn’t “seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the US”….
November 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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