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TopicAryans

Topic: Aryans

ICHR launches project to explore Aryan history. ‘Aim not merely to refute colonial frameworks’

Fareeha Iftikhar -
Under ‘The Arya History & Culture’, ICHR will publish a composite volume covering 10 key areas, compile existing published work of renowned scholars & latest unpublished research.

Aryans got the ‘nakshatra’ system from Harappans in 3000 BC

Devdutt Pattanaik -
Devdutt Pattanaik's 'Ahimsa : 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization' draws attention to how much Harappan memory persists in our lives today.

Aryans or Harappans—Who drove the creation of caste system? DNA holds a clue

Namit Arora -
In ‘Indians’, Namit Arora writes that scientists trace the earliest instances of endogamy in the subcontinent to the first millennium BCE.

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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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