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A couple of decades ago, the American musician Ry Cooder visited Cuba. His intent was to revisit the island nation’s great musicians, who had been forgotten because the American embargo on their nation meant they could not perform. They included singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who was...

Gujarat has got a new Chief Secretary in 1986-batch IAS officer Pankaj Kumar, but within babu circles, there is more curiosity about Kumar’s predecessor Anil Gopishankar Mukim, who completed his extended tenure. It’s not game over yet for Mukim. The word is that Mukim is...

Kate Mackintosh & Jojo Mehta As floods, wildfires, record-high temperatures, and zoonotic disease make the climate and ecological crisis impossible to ignore, the world may be moving closer to agreeing that serious damage to our natural environment is more than just a matter for goodwill...

Edi Rama There are few more honourable pages in Albania’s history than its lonely example of heroism in the face of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. Nobody asked our grandparents to risk, and often sacrifice, their lives to save people from...

It is a pity that when the aim of educational institutions is to create a congenial atmosphere so that truth, the spirit of inquiry and free thinking can flourish through an exposure to ideas from all quarters, a premier centre of learning in the country...

A window of opportunity seems to be opening for India to reach out to and mend its relations with the Taliban after a key member of the Taliban leadership made a carefully scripted statement August 28 that India is “very important for the subcontinent” and...

Finally, US President Joe Biden could meet the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett one-on-one for 50 minutes and then with their respective aides August 28. The meeting scheduled earlier was on the point of being shelved following the killings of scores of Afghans and...

Is India in a military and strategic alliance with the United States or is it not? In January this year, the United States declassified a 2018 document which says its national security challenge is ‘to maintain US strategic primacy… while preventing China from establishing new,...

The new Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, Katikithala Srinivas has a new and rather important task. In a first, non-IAS officers will receive mid-career training along with IAS officers in October this year, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...

Manos Antoninis In the small northern Croatian town of Orehovica, preschoolers get together twice a week to play and learn. The classes, which include children of Roma background, are full of energy. Activities adapted to everyone’s needs have created a sense of belonging for every...