Aziz Ansari’s Dev Shah- A Gandhi for Our Age?
Could American popular culture achieve what even Gandhi couldn’t? I’m taking of course about unity in the Subcontinent.
Could American popular culture achieve what even Gandhi couldn’t? I’m taking of course about unity in the Subcontinent.
Early Arab society, like the Quran itself, was strikingly egalitarian, until it came up against the reality of administering a large and multicultural empire.
The story of how the humble bulb became embroiled in the conflict between the forces of globalization and tradition.
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?
“A group of men set out to collect the fruits of a garden, but before doing so, they failed to acknowledge that their labors…
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…
Trying to define a word can be very difficult sometimes.
If we want to spread secular and scientific thought, we need better and more translations of scientific ideas into the vernacular.
Through the utter simplicity of their dress, the Nawabs of Awadh demonstrate that elegance is refusal.