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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

Using fun elements such as challenges, goals and rewards, games are playing a significant role in learning, lifestyle management and disease awareness.

The battle to reduce road deaths

In the move to a more sustainable and safer future, tackling road accident injuries and fatalities will require a more concerted effort.

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

Cyber scams are rising globally, targeting the vulnerable, especially youth. Understanding tactics and regional efforts is key to a safer cyberspace.

How Britain can pay for the sins of the empire

India’s former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has downplayed the need for reparations but reminds the British, “We know what happened” under the empire.

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Podcast: A king’s ransom for past injustices?

By his own words, the “time has come” for a conversation over Britain’s involvement in the slave trade as King Charles meets Commonwealth leaders in Samoa.

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Cultural resistance rises from the ruins of the Islamic State

A decade after Islamic State militants tried to destroy the rich history of Iraq and Syria, the hard work to rebuild the nations’ cultural heritage continues.

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Not all Muslims anxious over continued BJP rule

There are exceptions in India’s current round of electioneering rhetoric against Muslims that prove the country is still united in diversity.

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Museums’ complicated relationship with colonialism

Museums that claim to be encyclopaedic have promoted travelling exhibitions, loans and digital repatriation as alternatives to returning cultural property.

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Museums’ important role in telling missing stories

International Museum Day provides an opportunity to think about whose stories are told and whose are left out when we commemorate the past.

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Decolonising museums is not as easy as you’d think

Museums in former colonial powers face challenges in calls for decolonising their collections, but the issue acquires a different hue in India.

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Museums are more relevant than ever today

For museums to be truly inclusive, decolonised and spaces of education and research requires a rethinking of power relations and learning from past lessons.

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Is AI enabling our next Renaissance?

Europe’s Renaissance sparked a flowering of free thought and new ideas in the arts and elsewhere. AI could too.

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Can we afford to lose any more languages?

The very regions richest in languages are the ones most at risk of climate-induced language loss.

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Surrogacy in India not just for married heterosexuals

India’s revised surrogacy law does little to meet the needs of its growing LGBTQ+ community.

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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

The battle to reduce road deaths

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

How Britain can pay for the sins of the empire

Podcast: A king’s ransom for past injustices?

Cultural resistance rises from the ruins of the Islamic State

Museums’ complicated relationship with colonialism

Museums’ important role in telling missing stories

Decolonising museums is not as easy as you’d think

Is AI enabling our next Renaissance?

Can we afford to lose any more languages?

Surrogacy in India not just for married heterosexuals

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