Millions of people are being taught to search for their “purpose” as if it were a hidden object waiting to be discovered inside themselves. The modern formula is familiar: identify what you
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus The Mystery There are certain questions that accompany humanity from the cradle to
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While discussing about the progress of civilization, the question arises as to what should be the criteria for evaluating the progress or otherwise of civilization. Should civilization assessment be made on the
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Read, In Order to Live ~ Gustave Flaubert Being Bookish Lucy Mangan’s Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives is far more than a memoir about books. It is an affectionate meditation on the transformative
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In a March 2026 paper published in the journal Science Advances, which focused on variability in governance along the autocratic-democratic axis, my coauthors and I found that one of the strongest associations for the 40
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In a wide-ranging interview published by El País, Ana Conseglieri, a leading figure in Spanish neuropsychiatry and president of the Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría (AEN), sets out a critical reading of psychiatry’s
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The theme for an exhibition that opened on June 4, 2026, at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye), World’s First City Plan/Map, as part of my Arkeopolitics initiative, was met with reservations by a
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In Brazil, a surname shared by nearly one in every six citizens has become the focus of a broader conversation about identity, heritage, and social change. Silva, the most common family name
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All over the world , the retirement age for employees in government departments and in large and medium scale organized sector have been fixed as 60 in most cases. In India ,
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Inequality and Urbanism Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It attracts billionaires looking to store their wealth
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At four in the morning, Mecca does not sleep. In the blue stillness before dawn, a fisherman from the Indonesian archipelago and a surgeon from London move through the same narrow lane.
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