Four pro-Tibetan groups in France have lodged a legal complaint against the Musée Guimet, accusing it of wanting to "erase the existence of Tibet." They argue the museum's renaming of its Nepal-Tibet room to "Himalayan world" is misleading and politically charged, as it undermines Tibet's cultural identity amid ongoing tensions with Beijing over the region.
The widespread tale of Columbus being Jewish distracts from the complex, true story of Spanish Jews who engaged with the New World from the very beginning.
Irish literature is second to none, and for me that's quite a proud thing. The writers I've chosen for Document - Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, Flann O'Brien and Bram Stoker - are titans of literature and they each changed literature in their own way.
"The resilience of Romeyka highlights how language can survive despite external pressures, offering a window into ancient Greek structures that are otherwise lost in modern dialects."
Akhri Raat merges traditional Indian vocals with electronic production, creating a haunting yet danceable experience through Sickflip's original and Kahani's emotionally rich remix.
In his bizarre book Land and Sea, the German political theorist Carl Schmitt asserted that human history is defined by "the battle of sea powers against land powers and of land powers against sea powers." He clearly favored the landlubbers.