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Quote of the day by Antonio Gramsci: "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not..." Learn the profound lesson from the imprisoned Italian thinker who exposed how societies surrender freedom quietly through consent, culture, and invisible powerQuote of the day by Antonio Gramsci reveals a timeless truth about power, propaganda, political control, and social influence. Jailed by It...- Who is Mohammad Marandi? The man dubbed Iran’s ‘English-language mouthpiece’The name Mohammad Marandi has surged across global search trends, especially during geopolitical crises involving Iran. Data from internati...
- Foreign handles, desi stories: How global creators are decoding IndiaAn American picking up Malayalam. A Korean calling himself Bihari. A Kiwi showing the nooks of India. Foreign influencers are using Indian ...
- PM Modi's Ramnath Goenka Lecture served as both economic outlook, cultural call to action: Shashi TharoorCongress leader Shashi Tharoor attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Ramnath Goenka Lecture. He described the speech as an economic outlo...
- What beautiful English we speak!The author reflects on the common experience of Indians being complimented on their English proficiency by Westerners, particularly in Brit...
- Thadou community in Manipur asserts distinct identity, rejects Kuki associationThe Thadou community in Manipur holds that it is a distinct ethnic group with its own language, culture, and history, separate from the Kuk...
- Will English dominate machine communication? Mayank Kumar to demystify the future of coding at ET Soonicorns Summit 2024At the ET Soonicorns Summit 2024, Mayank Kumar will explore a critical question that many developers and coders face today: ‘Will future de...
- Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah says many works of ‘Golden Age’ British authors were openly racistThe British-Tanzanian author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for books such as 'Paradise' and 'Memory of Departure' exploring Europe's colonial le...
- Ukraine's social media stars rethink how they wield their influenceMoscow's invasion last year has caused a cultural upheaval in Ukrainian society that has run parallel to the fighting. Monuments to Russian...
- The telling of history cannot be left to the foibles of academics and academeseResearch scholars could have churned out many treatises based on just the records of this one family; but would they have written it in the...
- View: Why Europe is better than the US at talking to IndiaEurope thinks about its relationship with India the way the U.S. once did — as a partnership that goes beyond the transactional, in which e...
- Elections necessary for democracy: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"I remember having asked a child in a remote village what election meant. He said election is a game, it means 'maramari hobe' (there will ...
- Need to Indianise judicial system, says Supreme Court judge Justice NazeerLegal fees to approach the top courts are prohibitive, judgements are often delivered in English making it unfathomable for the ordinary li...
- The day Britain was discoveredWe should pick up this neat ‘poco’ trick from New Zealand.
- View: Legacy of British rule is still holding India backIf you view the colonial period as a harmful aberration, you will tend to think India can catch up as it leaves these distortions behind.
- How English-speaking skills are keeping Indian engineers away from their dream jobsA study has found that an overwhelming 97 per cent of engineers in the country cannot speak English, required for jobs in corporate sales a...
- Sanskrit, taught well, can be as rewarding as economicsA proper teaching of Sanskrit can help foster self-assuredness and humanity, in the way that reading Latin and Greek did for generations of...
- Book explores writings of eight Indian authorsWritings of eight Indian authors in English, their potrayal of modern India and what their works suggest about the country form the crux of...
- University of Delhi signs Memorandum of Understanding with University of Glasgow"It is an exciting prospect to have students from two continents exchanging ideas on literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare."
- Delhi university English department among world’s bestEven as Indian institutions of higher education have drawn flak for failing to make the top 200 in overall university rankings, DU’s Englis...
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