The Tropicalist

Could American popular culture achieve what even Gandhi couldn’t? I’m taking of course about unity in the Subcontinent.

The story of how the humble bulb became embroiled in the conflict between the forces of globalization and tradition.

Cherished national symbols often have international origins, blurring the lines between what’s local/ traditional and what’s not.

Talk of communism is suddenly springing up in the most unexpected quarters.

Is it even possible to spread a set of norms widely, but still maintain your status as the arbiter of those norms?

The last global age was the Golden Age of Islam. So why aren’t our intellectuals scouring it for clues about what lies ahead for us?

What is a good education? In the good old days, when education was the privilege of a few, a gentleman was expected to have classical…

Don’t get me wrong, Hong Kong is, hands down, one of my favourite cities in the world. But, even here, in this centre of…

It’s an odd and little-remarked-upon fact of our time that some of our most successful post-colonial nation states are not states at all. We’ve…

Following the news this summer on Brexit and the U.S. presidential race, it seems we have reached a turning point in the course of…