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TopicThe Conversation

Topic: The Conversation

Dear Indians, here’s why you should lower your voices when on a wildlife tour

Wildlife tourism can be good for animals and humans if tourists lower their voices – even whispering can disturb animals.

From India to Israel, laws are chipping away at democracy around the world

Experts no longer debate whether democracy is imperilled, but by how much and whether it’s reversible.

Game of Thrones: A dangerous world where LGBTQ characters die young or rot in jail

Game of Thrones will be screened in countries where homosexuality is illegal, where women’s sexual choices are controlled and where trans identities are subjugated.

There are 2.9 million atheists in India and it’s been around in Asia for centuries

Atheism is not a modern concept and is a significant cultural force in India, as well as in other Asian countries influenced by Indian religions.

The very idea of India is at stake in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

India poignantly illustrates the global challenges posed to democracy by the rise of nationalism and populism.

What is the best sense? Scientists are still battling it out

The debate has opened up some surprisingly deep questions – like what actually makes a sense more or less valuable? And, are some senses fundamentally more important in making us human?

Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is the woman we need

The 21st-century heroine may be scarred, imperfect or absurd, and she is in the mood of noncompliance with the world that men have organised.

Big gods came after the rise of civilisations not before, finds study

Our statistical analysis showed that beliefs in supernatural punishment tend to appear only when societies make the transition from simple to complex.

Monopoly was created 100 years ago to teach the dangers of capitalism

Progressive writer Elizabeth Magie Phillips designed the game in 1904 to teach players about the disadvantages of wealth concentration.

How airplane crash investigations work, an aviation safety expert explains

Major crash investigations are an enormous effort often involving many countries’ governments and input from dozens of industry partners.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.