फ़रवरी, 2020 तक भारतीय अख़बारों में दुनिया में एक नये वायरस के फैलने की सूचना प्रमुखता से आने लगी थी।
अख़बारों ने हमें बताया कि कोविड-19 सबसे अधिक जानलेवा है। लेकिन यह नहीं बताया कि हमारी हिंदी पट्टी में टी.बी, चमकी बुख़ार, न्यूमोनिया, मलेरिया आदि से मरने वालों की एक विशाल संख्या है। इन बीमारियों से सिर्फ़ हिंदी पट्टी में हर साल 5 से 7 लाख…[Read more]

This article describes how social-media companies have cleverly stifled freedom of expression during COVID-19.

ऐसी कोई भी बात को जो लॉकडाउन की आवश्यकता को कम करके बताए, वह या तो सोशल-मीडिया से गायब हो गई, या फिर उनकी रीच खत्म कर दी गई। इस लेख में बताया गया है कि ऐसा क्यों हुआ और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी के दैत्यों ने किस तरह पूरे विश्व पर कब्जा जमाया।

व्हाट्सएप ने 4 जनवरी, 2021 को अपनी नई सेवा शर्तें जारी की थी, जिसमें कहा गया था कि व्हाट्सएप का इस्तेमाल करने वालों का डेटा उसकी पैरेंट कंपनी फ़ेसबुक से संबद्ध पाँच कंपनियों को भी उपलब्ध कराया जाएगा और जो उपभोक्ता इन सेवा शर्तों के लिए 8 फरवरी तक सहमति नहीं देंगे, उनकी सेवाएँ बंद कर दी जाएँगी। इस सूचना के आते ही दुनिया भर में खलबली मच गय…[Read more]

The coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]

Wissenschaftler und Denker haben sich widerstandslos für die Durchsetzung der herrschenden Corona-Agenda einspannen lassen.

Der durch das Coronavirus veranlasste Lockdown hat nicht nur unsere körperliche Freiheit ausgehöhlt, sondern auch unsere geistige Freiheit untergraben. In vielen Ländern wurde für das Denken Käfighaltung angeordnet. Offen…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

This monograph does not represent the 1979 Revolution as a rapture in Persian poetry, rather it sees the continuity; Shams demonstrates that Islamic Republican poetry was in fact in the making decades before the Revolution. In its study of war poetry, this monograph remains focused on official poets alone. For an understanding of other (official)…[Read more]

यह लेख उत्तर-मानववाद से संबंधित विमर्श से हिंदी पाठकों को परिचित करवाने के उद्देश्य से लिखा गया है।

इस लेख में कहा गया है कि विकास केवल भौतिक-प्राकृतिक जगत में ही नहीं, विचारों के क्षेत्र में भी होता है। दुनिया लगातार बदल रही है, विकसित हो रही है। आज न हम कार्ल मार्क्स के ज़माने में हैं, न गांधी-आम्बेडकर-लोहिया के ज़माने में। आर्थिक-साम…[Read more]

The drama of the Niger Delta region has enjoyed robust scholarship. This essay interrogates J. P. Clark-Bekederemo’s drama against the cultural milieu of the region and tries to investigate the connections between the rich folklore of the area and the wealth of poetry and imagery contained in his drama. The essay investigates the terrain,…[Read more]

This report was written as part of an internship at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
The internship and report were completed in partial fulfilment of the requirements of a Master’s degree in
Public Health at the School of Public Health of the Université de Montréal (health promotion option). The
internship was completed in the Pub…[Read more]

Patient-centered care evolves around proper coordination between healthcare providers in consultation with patient needs. Oftentimes, children play a passive role in their health care because of the controversy around age and lack of consensual abilities. The impact of engaging children early on to empower decision-making skills has been proven to…[Read more]

The spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]

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The author does justice to a subject often mentioned, yet rarely studied. He succeeds in its purpose, i.e., providing “as genuine a picture as possible of the censorship of literature after the 1979 Revolution” followed by discussing “the effects of this unique censorship regime on the Iranian literature of the time” (9). Drawing from his experie…[Read more]

Through the case of Emerson’s appropriation of Persian poetry this volume provides a thought-provoking example of how the literary founding father of a nation is cosmopolitan and receptive of foreign cultures in what might seem a purely “nationalistic” agenda. It will appeal to those in the field of Persian literature, comparative liter…[Read more]

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