modern

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In a state where modern politics was shaped by rationalist thought and the Self-Respect Movement - which envisioned a society where marginalised castes would have equal rights - the visible turn to faith feels deliberate.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

The Los Angeles Philharmonic will name the Hollywood Bowl’s stage for the 93-year-old composer, whose music for “Star Wars” and “E.T.” helped define modern cinema.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Soon Zanjani was running the biggest publicly known money-laundering scheme in modern Iranian history, pulling billions of badly needed dollars into Iran’s struggling banking system.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

A growing body of research suggests that modern humans did not originate from a single location, but instead emerged through interactions among groups spread across different regions of Africa.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

Rising in jagged punches toward the sky, it had marked the landscape of Mount St. Helens for as long as modern scientists had been studying it.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone