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Putting Tibet Back in Focus

Vinaya Chandran

Historian Claude Arpi goes beyond the British and Chinese narratives to examine older ties between India and the region

The Nuts and Bolts of History

A timely examination of the microfoundations of big political events

The Awakening

The Ram temple offers itself as an opportunity for a new generation to think for themselves about this wave of history and faith that has washed in, sweeping away a great amount of historical angst and refuse

Covid-19: The Reckoning

The shock of Covid-19 resulted from our cultural amnesia about past pandemics

Politics in Past Tense

The window Spike Lee opens in Da 5 Bloods gives America a vantage point to view the burning streets from a culturally correct angle

They, too, sang America

Four centuries of the African-American journey

Istanbul: Lost in Shifting Shadows

A city caught between the heretical seductions of modernity and the atavistic lures of medievalism

A Time for Ecosophy

The Corona Condition is a last gentle warning from the gods

When History Stands Still

Consolations from the trauma-ridden past of India

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