21.07.2026 à 03:30
The politics of profanity: swearing as a social mirror in South Asia
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, and gender policing into the texture of everyday speech.
Relational insults and the grammar of hierarchy
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20.07.2026 à 16:43
Bangladesh. Comment les dynasties ont pris le contrôle du Parlement
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 rétablissement de la démocratie parlementaire au Bangladesh en 1991, chacun étant dirigé depuis ses débuts par une dynastie : (…)
20.07.2026 à 15:46
Gen Z revolts have toppled governments - Who Inherits the Uprising?
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 matter of hours, brought down by an uprising that had begun five weeks earlier as a protest over public-sector job quotas; (…)
