Tag: Global

The narrator is an outsider, both as a man and as a caste hindu from another town, in a Adivasi land slowly devoured by the mining mafias. The Mining company powers from faraway, Systematic violence of the state, religious powers, casteists of the villages destroy the lives of an extended family the...

More people speak Spanish than English as their first language. Nearly three three times as many speak Mandarin Chinese in their family homes. Yet few would dispute that English is the leading world language. This is because English is the world’s lingua franca or common second la...

In the tapestry of contemporary menswear, a new thread is being woven, merging the raw, unpolished essence of grunge with the rich, diverse textures of global cultures. This emerging style, which I dub Global Grunge, reinterprets the classic elements of grunge — jeans, flannel, warm headwear, ...

In today’s global landscape, India holds significant sway, evidenced by the presence of tech titans Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg adorned in traditional Indian ethnic wear at the pre-wedding festivities of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, at c...

Opioids are now rivaling the societal damage inflicted by smoking tobacco. In the U.S. as cigarette sales have dropped and lung cancer deaths have been declining — over one hundred thousand people per year still die from lung cancer as of 2020. Opioid deaths in the U.S. are on an aggressive...

The database encompasses details like latitude, longitude, elevation, volcano type, latest eruption record, VEI index, and socio-economic statistics including overall casualties, injuries, houses destroyed, damaged houses, and estimated economic impact, if accessible. If a volcano eruption is connec...

The long-wave radiation is highly absorptive and strongly absorbs infrared rays from the ground radiation, causing the earth’s temperature to rise, that is, the greenhouse effect. Global warming will redistribute global precipitation, melting glaciers and frozen soils,&n...

The long-awaited biennial Conference of the Parties-or COP-to the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity got underway last week in Montreal after a two-year delay caused by the covid pandemic. The convention is working toward a Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to serve as the underlying goals...