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Abhishek Avtans' cross-linguistic survey of swearing in South Asian languages is as much a study in social structure as in phonetics.
A linguist at Leiden University, Abhishek Avtans argues that profanity in South Asian languages functions as a precise diagnostic of the region's social order — encoding caste hierarchy, patriarchal kinship expectations, religious enmity, ...

Lors des quatre dernières élections au Bangladesh, plus de la moitié des circonscriptions ont été remportées au moins une fois par des candidats tirant leur crédibilité politique d'un ou plusieurs membres de leur famille ayant déjà représenté la Ligue Awami (AL) ou le Parti nationaliste du Bangladesh (BNP). [1]
Les deux partis se sont succédé au pouvoir depuis le rétabli...

Gen Z revolts have learned to topple governments. The question of who succeeds them has barely been posed.
The Interregnum of the Young
On the afternoon of 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina boarded a military helicopter and fled Dhaka as hundreds of thousands of students and workers converged on her residence. Fifteen years of increasingly authoritarian rule ended in a m...

For three days in the middle of June, the spa town of Évian-les-Bains was sealed off from the country it belongs to. Sixteen thousand police, gendarmes, soldiers and border guards held a perimeter that ran along the southern shore of Lake Geneva and across the frontier into Switzerland; the rail line was suspended, the lakefront divided into coloured zones, movement rationed ...

Yet another El Niño, after the strong event of 2023–24, has taken hold of the Pacific Ocean – and this time it may emerge as a historically powerful one. Satellite data through the spring tracked a vast pulse of unusually warm water making its way across the Pacific, and on 11 June 2026 the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its El Niñ...