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Giorgio Armani’s last show
Richard Gere, the actor whose career Armani’s clothes had helped launch in “American Gigolo,” was there, in an Armani tux, along with his “Gigolo”...
Fragile Palestine: Recognition sans borders risks empty gesture
30 Sept 2025 6:20 AM ISTA surge in global recognition of Palestine marks a historic shift— but without confronting settlement expansion, fractured leadership, and contested...
Green pledge: Beijing is adult in room on climate now
30 Sept 2025 6:10 AM ISTThe point was that in contrast to the West, where election cycles have constrained consistent climate action, China plays a long game — planning...
Pop Sublime: Charli XCX, Gen Z’s answer to Romantic poets
29 Sept 2025 8:55 AM ISTBrat is similarly preoccupied with the construction of identity, with Charli building her “party girl” persona through aggressive branding and lyrics...
Thriving Monopoly: Google’s grip on global knowledge
29 Sept 2025 7:46 AM ISTDespite its power, Google is not immune to government pressure. Regulators are separately pursuing the breakup of its advertising business.
Peacemaker Hype: When boasts replace diplomacy and truth
29 Sept 2025 7:45 AM ISTTrump’s Nobel Peace Prize campaign – which he recently took to the United Nations General Assembly – has followed a familiar pattern: invent or...
Wake up before a crowd gathers
29 Sept 2025 7:00 AM ISTThe most worrisome aspect of any of these stampedes is that glaring lessons available from the preceding events were not learnt.
Editorial: Education schemes going places
27 Sept 2025 6:40 AM ISTIn the last several years, there has been a race in political circles to publicise or blow their own trumpets, as the case may be, regarding their...
