Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated modern Chinese novelists and essayists of the twentieth century. First published in 1944, and just as beloved as her fiction in the Chinese-speaking world, Written on Water collects Chang’s reflections on art, literature, war, urban culture, and her life as a writer and woman in wartime Shanghai and Hong… Read More Written on Water
Hannah Ellis-Petersen Explainer How Imran Khan became the man who divided Pakistan From cricket star to ousted PM, Khan is an anti-establishment rebel to some and a corrupt force for destruction to others Hannah Ellis-Petersen Imran Khan is often regarded as the most divisive man in Pakistan. For some, the former superstar cricketer turned prime… Read More How Imran Khan became the man who divided Pakistan
By Brad Wolf / Common Dreams The senseless slaughter of World War I began with the murder of a single man, a Crown Prince of a European empire whose name no one was particularly familiar with at the time. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria was the presumptive heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire in June of 1914.… Read More War for Profit: A Very Short History
NB: This is the result of the relentlessly divisive politics of India’s ruling establishment. They have no principle other than ‘divide and rule.’ When sections of officialdom go along with this policy, they are doing nothing less than defile the Indian Constitution. The irreparable consequences of this policy will be felt for a long time.… Read More ‘Everything is gone’: entire Indian villages burned in ethnic violence
Putin once saw advantage in giving writers a degree of freedom, even to be critical. Those days are long gone, and Russia’s artists are fleeing William Fear As much as Russia is the country of Tolstoy and Rachmaninov, it is also the country of Stalin and the Lubyanka prison – a nation built as much on beauty… Read More As the Ukraine war grinds on, Russia is becoming a cultural wasteland
Some genuine investigative journalism, congratulations to this reporter Rahul Gandhi Case : Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने | Justice Loya ************************* Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths Death of Judge Loya: A critical examination of the ECG and post-mortem demonstrates the failings of the SC verdict A Family Breaks Its… Read More Rahul Gandhi Case: Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने – Justice Loya
The contentious issues of eviction of forest villages, Meiteis demanding ST status and the breakdown of talks on autonomy with the Kukis coalesced, creating an explosive situation Bharat Bhushan The volatile situation in Manipur will no doubt be brought under control by the large-scale deployment of the Army and Central paramilitary forces. However, that will… Read More Shielding governance failure will not resolve Manipur’s problems
First posted October 22, 2019 NB: This report on the deaths of Judge Loya and his two friends appeared in 2018. Our ‘free and unfettered’ media continues to ignore this matter; as it has ignored the suicide of an ex Chief Minister who alleged high-level corruption in the judiciary; and has also failed to pursue the manner in which criminal cases… Read More Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths
And God made him die during the course of a hundred years and then He revived him and said:“How long have you been here?” / “A day, or part of a day,” he replied. The Koran, II 261 On the night of March 14, 1939, in an apartment on the Zelternergasse in Prague, Jaromir Hladik,… Read More Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘The Secret Miracle’ (1943)
Since Euromaidan and the first Russian invasion in 2014, Ukrainian filmmakers have been prolifically recording the impact of war on society. The result is an immensely powerful and varied body of work across genres and styles. A survey. Barbara Wurm ‘What power does art have in wartime?’ asks the poster for Iryna Tsilyk’s multiple award-winning… Read More Anthropology of war
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