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Readers’ comments: Tourists in Goa must tip service workers more generously

Readers’ comments: Tourists in Goa must tip service workers more generously

Thank you for this insightful article about the ugly underbelly of tourism and second homes in prime tourist destinations (“ The expensive fantasy...

18.12.2025 4

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Bondi and beyond: Lessons from Kochi in a fractured world

Bondi and beyond: Lessons from Kochi in a fractured world

From my hotel on Jew Street in Kochi, the morning begins gently – filtered light, the sound of footsteps on old stone roads, the quiet preparations...

17.12.2025 2

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Jael Silliman

As democracy backslides everywhere, the Global South must reimagine a new world order

As democracy backslides everywhere, the Global South must reimagine a new world order

The Civicus People Power Report 2025, released on December 9, confirms what civil society actors have been warning about long before the data could...

15.12.2025 5

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Devyani Kacker

Ramachandra Guha: Lessons that my parents taught me, quietly and unselfconsciously

Ramachandra Guha: Lessons that my parents taught me, quietly and unselfconsciously

This column stays away from mentioning my family, but I must now make an exception. This is because my mother died last week, 12 years after my...

14.12.2025 3

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Ramachandra Guha

The lost art of getting lost: How smartphones messed up our mental maps

The lost art of getting lost: How smartphones messed up our mental maps

The announcement arrived like a bureaucratic sigh: next year’s Ekushey Boi Mela, the annual February book fair in Dhaka that consecrates the memory...

07.12.2025 30

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Zakir Kibria