The custodial deaths of a father and son in Tamil Nadu, which had sparked outrage across India, is one among many glaring instances of police brutality. Each year, only a few of these examples make it to the public discourse, while the larger reality mostly remains hidden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-mD0MCBDs&feature=emb_title The institution of policing, explained aptly in “The Fist of Modernity” by the video essayist Lewis...
Strategic thinkers, defense editors, journalists, and other people have offered innumerable reasons for the recent flare-up at the border which is unprecedented since last shots were fired in the way back in 1987
Since the inception of the concept of translation, there has been an endless debate among academicians and readers about the aspects of a work that is often believed to be lost in translation. That has led to the rise of black and white concepts like a “good translation” and a “bad translation”. But, of course, that warrants a complete understanding of the vast world...
The first Converciti Podcast brings to you an eclectic panel of young international debaters and their perspective on the global pandemic and its impact.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s beard and broadly speaking, his appearances have caught increasing public attention during the pandemic. It can be argued that Modi’s “beardom” represents a hidden political craft which acts as a political instrumentality. In the spring of 1972, Stewart Alsop had penned an article for The Atlantic titled, “Nixon and the square majority: is the Fox a Lion?”. The author characterizes...
