Shashi Tharoor Says The UN Cannot Be Abandoned Despite Gaza And Ukraine At Desmond Tutu Lecture

In a powerful, deeply reflective speech in Cape Town, Shashi Tharoor declared that even as the UN falters in Gaza and Ukraine ...
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Shashi Tharoor Praises PM Modi’s Speech, Sparks Congress-BJP Exchange

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor recently lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks during the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, ...
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‘Badhai!’ In India, a celebration for Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral win and his roots

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians lit up social media on Wednesday to celebrate Zohran Mamdani’s election win as New York City mayor after he thanked his Indian-born parents, quoted a historic speech by ...
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Poll: Younger Americans less concerned about political violence, free speech threats

WASHINGTON — In the tumultuous political climate marked by this year's assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah and a Democratic legislator in Minnesota, younger adults are less ...
Project Syndicate

Indian Politics Are a Family Business

The belief that members of political dynasties are uniquely suited to lead is woven deeply into the fabric of Indian governance, from village councils to the highest echelons of parliament. But when ...
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Emotion-Coherent Speech Data Augmentation And Self-Supervised Contrastive Style Training For Enhancing Kids’s Story Speech Synthesis

Abstract: Expressive speech synthesis requires vibrant prosody and well-timed pauses. We propose an effective strategy to augment a small dataset to train an expressive end-to-end Text-to-Speech model ...
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Viewpoint: Defending free speech is everyone’s duty

As Americans and Montanans our defining value is our freedom. One of our most important freedoms is our ability to make up our own minds about what we think and how we feel and the right to express ...