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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...

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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...

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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...

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Zakir Kibria

Bangladesh: When will citizen rights matter as much as the majority’s ‘hurt religious sentiments’?

Bangladesh: When will citizen rights matter as much as the majority’s ‘hurt religious sentiments’?

A state’s legitimacy rests on a simple promise: to protect rights, deliver justice, and shield citizens from tangible harm. It is meant to be a...

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Mirza R Ahmad

How Osho taught Hindi to think

How Osho taught Hindi to think

When Wild Wild Country came out on Netflix in 2018, Acharya Rajneesh – or Osho, as he came to be known – was, in many ways, exiled twice over. For...

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Krishna Kumar Pandey