The television series Asking the Vast Earth (问苍茫, 2023) opens with a scene of a young Mao Zedong swimming in the Xiang River, swollen from the heavy rains. A fisherman calls from the bank
Prehistory is a modern idea. The word was “coined” only in the 1830s. Before the 19th century, we didn’t know much about dinosaurs or cavemen, and fossils remained a scientific curiosity. When
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Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of
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The concept of “pagan” has an Old Testament origin. In Russian, “gentiles” were called peoples. The ancient Jews used the term “am” (עם) to describe themselves, and “goy” (גוי) to describe other
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When I met Dr. Malini Dias almost ten years ago at the Royal Asiatic Society in Colombo(RASSL), I was in my last stage of university life as an undergraduate with sanguine expectations
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc “For many who are tuned in to what Walter Benjamin
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A bizarre geopolitical thesis in the Indian media last week characterised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent 7-hour trip to Ukraine via Poland as part of an effort “to plug a missing link — Central
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