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What makes people risk their lives for the sake of others?

When I meet humanitarians, I usually ask them how they got there. What happened? So, when a volunteer at the Bangkok Literature Festival, an Egyptian...

09.11.2023 2

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The mystery of why siblings are often useless or worse

The relationship that people are most likely to squander is probably not marriage, but the bond with their sibling. A large number of people appear to...

05.11.2023 10

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The loneliness of Israel is a punishment for its strength

Gaza is rubble, but Palestinians somehow always find clean white shrouds for their dead. Children are dying there, their parents too, and the young,...

29.10.2023 9

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What the Palestine conflict says about human nature

If 2,000 heavily armed terrorists have a free rein inside a nation they despise, how many people do you imagine they would kill? On 7 October, nearly...

22.10.2023 6

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Palestinians will do better without long-distance lovers

The fortune of Israel was that it made for very bland photojournalism. All the trauma of the Levant was on the other side of the fence, in Gaza. That...

15.10.2023 5

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Is it illegal in India to push views that China may like?

The activist outfit, Newsclick, is under attack from the Indian government on the suspicion that it is funded by China to unsettle India. Its founder...

08.10.2023 9

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In memory of Gandhi’s encounters with bio-hacking

He was the kind of man who could dissuade people from calling him “Mahatma" without making them laugh. What created an added aura around him was...

01.10.2023 4

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What could possibly ruin the BJP?s dominance one day

It appears that many politicians across India who are not with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) live in fear of imprisonment, chiefly for corruption...

24.09.2023 7

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Why psychoanalysis should be kept outside one’s home

Home psychoanalysis is a modern disorder. More than ever, people are attributing reasons for a person’s behaviour to something not very obvious,...

17.09.2023 8

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Telgi’s fate may have been different if he’d bought votes

Sometime in the 1990s, word spread in Mumbai’s dance bars that a man had spent ₹80 lakh on a gorgeous dancer in a single night. The amount...

10.09.2023 8

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