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As the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) sweep across the labour force, it’s understandable for workers to be concerned about which jobs are most at risk of being replaced by technology.
15 Aug 2026, 11:29 AM - Long Reads
It all started quite by accident. In 1981, while visiting the renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, where the Festival of India was being held, I came across some remarkable vintage photographs of British India and the Princely States on display. As I stood transfixed in front of a large, attractive photograph of an Indian potentate of yore, a gorgeously attired old Maharajah who stared balefully at the camera, a thought struck me. Would it be possible to locate, retrieve, collect, identify, faithfully restore and research vintage photographs in Bangladesh? I was, of course, aware that, given the climatic conditions in our deltaic country, which are averse to any sort of preservation, let alone the survival of vintage photographs, it would be very difficult to find them in good condition.
15 Aug 2026, 11:28 AM - Long Reads
Fidel Castro would have been amused by an unexpected encomium from the belly of the beast on the eve of his birth centenary. Even the title of last month’s US State Department 100-page diatribe, Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, could be interpreted as a tribute. Like much else in a report intended to make the case for state capitulation or capture, this is an egregious exaggeration. The idea, obviously, is to illustrate how a small Caribbean island has posed an unacceptable threat to US ‘national security’ for nearly 70 years, and why that nuisance must be eliminated. Yet the supporting text is not mere fiction. Chunks of it could be read as an explanation for why Cuba proved so influential internationally in the decades after the 1959 revolution spearheaded by Castro.
15 Aug 2026, 11:23 AM - Long Reads
Colorado's Gold Mountain Fire—seen here in aerial images from author and photographer Pete McBride's flight with pilot Phillip Winfrey—is just one of many raging in the West after a record-low snowpack and spring heat wave created dry conditions dangerously susceptible to sparks or lightning strikes.
13 Aug 2026, 10:43 AM - Long Reads
