“in his view there could come of his interference nothing worse than what existed at present. And yet to every bad there is a worse.” ― Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy: The Complete Collection
1. Switzerland Schedule
Journals. Memoirs. To-do lists. They all have their place. A documentation of life, activities and events. They all bring back memories and sometimes are cathartic. In this piece, Robin Williamson writes about a ritual of her family called “The Switzerland Schedule.” She talks about her mother's death and how the documentation helped her.
Sometimes our experiences start us thinking in different directions. Many years back during my post grad days, I visited a village in Rajasthan and had some experience which led to this story. A personal plug.
The number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades. But the ‘disruptiveness’ of those papers has dropped, according to an analysis of how radically papers depart from the previous literature.
Is it because science is now an ideological undertaking?
The ‘precolonial Africa’ phrase and whatever follows from that always ends in caricature of the continent. Homogenizing and bastardizing the people and the cultures on the continent.
Colonial forces always had artists with them. These artists were crucial for recording information. Information that was better documented in images than words. Here is an interesting and very informative article on how the tattoes of the Native Americans were documented by the British artists.
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India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
When Trump flew to Beijing carrying an unwinnable war, rising fuel prices, and a closed strait he could not reopen alone, Xi gave him pageantry with a twist. Nothing was signed. Yet, perhaps everything was decided.
Robin Williamson
Desh Kapoor
Max Kozlov
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Mairin Odle
