India

Right

... you know, there's that famous, um, photo in India of, like, Dario and Sam holding their hand up together and, like-

Yeah, they can't even hold hands, right?

Neither of them look particularly-

Right.

The only other time this shows up in this specific way is in the Bengali tradition in India.

Hmm.

So two times in this entire group of languages.

Oh, with the wings

... vase.

Uh, you see a version of this with Indra in this old Indian drawing, and you see a version of this in, uh, Norse mythology-

Ooh, I like this one

They wanted to give even work a playful feel, turning a boring workplace tool into a stylish sort of pop accessory that you could carry like a briefcase.

In the 1960s, Sottsass traveled a lot, and he was inspired by American pop art and Indian spiritual philosophies.

During a trip to India in 1961, he fell in love with how traditional cultures used vibrant color, sacred geometry, and handmade ceramics to create objects filled with ritual meaning.

He realized that a simple bowl or a cabinet didn't just have to serve a practical function.

But we aren't stopping there.

To really understand the sheer scale of modern tribalism, we'll be looking at this eye-opening financial and cultural analysis from Sportcal regarding the India-Pakistan cricket clash.

But before we get to the billion-dollar broadcasting rights and, uh, severed pig heads-

Yes, there is a severed pig head involved

That brings us to our final and most consequential piece of source material.

It is a massive leap in scale.

We are moving away from local culture wars and looking at the billion-dollar border war, the India versus Pakistan cricket rivalry.

When you read the sporting analysis, the numbers are so large they almost lose meaning.

Uh, uh, you know, there is a, there is a kind of an old saying where y- someone would say, "I, I, I trust my barber, but I have faith in my doctor," you know? So the, there is, there is that relationship [laughs] there is that relationship with, with, uh, with medicine that is something, um, almost sacred, that these-- the doctor is, knows things.

And so what I been following over the past decades is the kind of the unraveling of the reputation of the doctor, the, the, the escape of Iraqi patients from Iraq to go and seek care in Iran or in Turkey or in Syria or in Beirut or, uh, or in India.

I was trying to understand why patients are moving, why do they seek healthcare, uh, outside Iraq, and what is really at stake.

So part of what the narrative that comes out is this, is this feeling of, of mistrust with the medical system.

The most significant piece of world reaction this weekend did not come from a single government, but from a summit.

Leaders of the BRICS bloc, meeting in New Delhi under India's rotating chairmanship, unanimously adopted what has been called the New Delhi Declaration on Saturday, after negotiators reportedly worked through the early hours of the morning to bridge sharply different positions between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, two members on opposite sides of this war.

The declaration expressed deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East and called for maximum restraint, while deliberately avoiding language that names the United States, Israel, or Iran directly.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Iranian President Massoud Pazeshkin all attended in person, alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as host.

On the sidelines of the summit, Prime Minister Modi met separately with President Pazeshkian, reiterating India's position that the war must be resolved through dialogue rather than further military escalation, while also stressing the importance of protecting freedom of navigation and the safety of commercial seafarers, an unmistakable reference to the ongoing disruption at both Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb.

Analysts covering the summit described the declaration as a study in the limits of BRICS unity.

Al Jazeera's reporting from New Delhi noted that the bloc steered clear of naming any country, even on the broader issue of tariffs, reflecting how members with direct grievances against Washington chose consensus language over direct confrontation.

They're very clear, very red, and they're perfect for making that sort of cup of hot, cold, sweet tea that one gets served liberally down on the deep side.

And We also import from traditional origins, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, obviously Malawi.

My soft spot is Malawi.

And yeah, that's the business we're in.

Whereas Qi is a bit more like, yeah, it's more or less the right size.

So I'm exaggerating, but it's much, from that point of view, much less disciplined, much less homogenous across the world.

So what you might find in Africa is slightly different to what you find in India.

It's slightly different to what you call in Sri Lanka or Argentina or something like that.

And I worked in many different countries.

I've worked in India and in Japan.

I studied abroad in South America.

Eventually, I came back to the United States.

The farmer who's got some in his grain silo, the grain processors who's got some in their silos, the manufacturers, the flour.

When you tot up everything, there's quite a lot within a global supply chain, and you just hope that if there's a problem in Europe, then you can get it from Canada or India or whatever instead.

So, yeah, public food stores are generally...

although they're starting to come back in this current era.