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Hold your tongue
In India, the BJP wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. Ganesh Devy, on the other hand, wants to preserve as many languages as possible.
The sports-betting pundits
The real churn of betting happens not in the backrooms of sportsbook businesses but deep within the servers of companies that bettors haven’t heard of at all.
The language of Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuarón subverted sci-fi and fantasy. With Disclaimer, he has set out to conquer TV in the name of cinema.
The cement giant that paid ISIS
Lafarge began operating in Syria before the civil war erupted. When ISIS took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep selling cement.
The singing breeze of the fans
In many parts of the world, on many days, a ceiling fan is all you’ll need. Leave the ACs to those who really need them.
Digital sleuthing in an AI age
Eliot Higgins and his forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a nose for truth in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
The mystery of beautiful batting
In cricket, batting is singular in its evocation of beauty, and even the unbeautiful players know it. But what does it even mean to bat beautifully?
AI and the end of writing
If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?
What does Rahul Gandhi want?
Time is running out for Rahul Gandhi’s vision for India. But he is still trying to unseat Modi and change his nation’s course.