The problem, dear Ralph Lauren, is not your use of the jhumka, but your dismissal of its history. The list of stolen items is too vast to fight, but we haven't given up on acknowledgement.
Kolhapuri chappals have long battled low demand and dwindling artisan numbers. A case of cultural appropriation is now offering the craft a possible chance at revival.
There must be a larger debate on intellectual property, cultural credit, and economic justice, especially in the context of Hindu religious symbols, philosophies, and principles.
Author Rajiv Malhotra Western challenged Western ‘copy-pasting’ of Indian ideas at the Delhi launch of his latest book ‘The Battle for Consciousness Theory’.
Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Sacred Cow and Chicken Manchurian' by James Staples will be released on 29 February on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
Movie 'American Dharma' is about the rise of Alt-Right poster boy Steve Bannon, credited with engineering divisive strategies that made 2016 election of Donald Trump possible.
India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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