The West Bengal Urdu Academy had cancelled a literary event in Kolkata, which was to feature the renowned Urdu writer and poet, Javed Akhtar.

As Guineans head to the polls, Australian stakeholders must act responsibly to avoid the risks of exacerbating local tensions, empowering authoritarian actors or fueling instability.

The outage – plus Optus’s delayed response to it – has sparked fury and condemnation.

Going to high-quality early childhood education or preschool is one way to ensure children do not fall behind before they even start school.

“Our friendship commenced in terrible times of cruelty, murder, privation, and suffering, and yet in all this, your father shone out as one of the bright stars of heaven"

There is growing concern that we are increasingly putting too much of the tax burden on people aged in their mid-30s to mid-50s.

These upheavals have two immediate implications for India.

The loss of graduates has fuelled a debate on whether higher education should continue to remain free and without a bonding system to keep graduates at home, at least for a few years after graduation.

As India continues to change, what keeps Hindi alive is not just its official status but the way it quietly threads through everyday life.

In Australia, we’ve only seen some of those measures, including trials of security tags on meat.