Let your mother be God. Let your father be God. Let your teacher be God. It begins the same way in almost every Indian household — a child bending to touch an elder’s feet, a hand raised in blessing, ...

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If you ask most parents what respect looks like, the answers are usually very clear. Say namaste. Touch elders’ feet. Don’t talk back. Don’t sit while elders are standing. Use “aunty,” “uncle,” “sir,” ...

Before cities, smartphones, or even written language, humans had one major survival tactic: each other. We lived in small, tight-knit groups where survival meant working together. And to do that, we ...

Colleges can help students cultivate civic respect—a value more easily affirmed than granted in our polarized climate, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse write. With universities reeling ...