Iran

Why ChatGPT is right and wrong about biryani

Ullekh NP

It is a main course often served in tiffin boxes. It originated in Iran, but became a rice dish in the Indian subcontinent

Mapping Women’s Anger

Arshia Sattar

The importance of righteous rage, from the ancient epics to the revolutions of today

The Generation Slap

Madhavankutty Pillai

What makes an orthodoxy like Iran disband the morality police

Persian Discontent

Makarand R Paranjape

Salman Rushdie’s prophecy and the second Iranian revolution

Iran’s youth have been reeling under an economy marred by decades of US sanctions, corruption and the pandemic. The attempts to tighten the noose on social freedoms and the state’s heavy-handedness have therefore invited an almost instant and massive pushback