This article explores what led to the glacial disaster that struck Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on the 7th of February 2021, the looming threat of glacial retreat in the Himalayas and the need to revisit our developmental policies in the Himalayas.

The turmoil between France and Islam
Most of the recent debates around French secularism and its defence of free speech against the allegations of Islamophobia by Muslim nations, tend to place the entire narrative within two largely dichotomous camps. Taking both of those positions into account, this piece aims to comprehensively describe the past and present interpretations of the idea of laicite, and arrive at a position that can reconcile the anxieties of both the French state and its Muslim citizens.