Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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‘Give each major Indian written language the chance to shine as a way of expressing new ideas, especially in science and tech’ (opens the original)
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Long before India became a global economy, it had already travelled far beyond its shores. It travelled in ships, in the memories of migrants, in religious rituals, in food and music, and perhaps most enduringly, in language. Across the plantations of the Caribbean, the islands of the Indian Ocean and the distant settlements of Southeast Asia, words carried by Indians began to change as they encountered new worlds. Bhojpuri became something different in Trinidad. Hindustani acquired new rhythms
How education and creativity keep the human signature alive in the age of AI (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of anxiety that now accompanies education in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). It is not merely the old anxiety about examinations, competition or jobs. Those fears belonged to a familiar world in which education, however unequal, was still understood as the acquisition of capacities that machines did not possess. A student learned to write, calculate, compose, analyse, design or argue, and these abilities were valued because they remained recognisably human. Th
Literature in Nobel laureate Han Kang’s world is not an escape from darkness, but the stubborn preservation of human tenderness within it (opens the original)
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For nearly two decades now, the South Korean Nobel laureate has built one of the most haunting literary oeuvres of contemporary world literature. Whether in The Vegetarian, Human Acts, The White Book, or Greek Lessons, she has consistently explored the uneasy relationship between violence and tenderness, memory and erasure, the body and its wounds. Her prose does not announce itself loudly. It arrives quietly, almost hesitantly, carrying within it the tremors of unspeakable histories. Her new no
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