NB: Actually the political hoodlums are bigger jokers than Kunal Kamra. Now they have secured a much wider audience for his jokes. Most of their muscle lies between their ears. Kunal Kamra Comedy Special By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN A prominent Indian comedian is standing by his right to make jokes after an… Read More A comedian told a joke about a politician. Now he’s under police investigation
Jonathan Steele For a man who once told his friend Beatrice Webb that he “disliked the profession of diplomacy”, Ivan Maisky was an unusually brilliant practitioner of the art of being an ambassador. Spending 11 years as Stalin’s representative in London, between 1932 and 1943, Maisky not only had his hands full in trying to… Read More The Maisky Diaries review – Britain’s high and mighty in conversation with Stalin’s man
A blossoming relationship unfolds when two strangers have a chance encounter in a London cafe. Winner: Best Short Film – Florence Film Awards 2020 Rachel Shenton stars in this award-winning short film about the price of love ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times. By Marcus Markou “Papa old-age home se bhaag gaye. Mrs Sharma ke saath”… Read More A Glimpse: award-winning short film about the price of love
Harmeet Kaur The world for kids today looks a lot different than it did for their parents. A scene from the hit Netflix series “Adolescence” captures just how vast that difference is. In the show’s second episode, Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters) is at a secondary school to investigate why 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen… Read More Teenage boys are in crisis. The message of ‘Adolescence’
પ્રોફેસર દિલીપ સિમ્યન (ગયા વર્ષે ૨ ઑક્ટોબરે મહાત્મા ગાંધીના ૧૫૫મા જન્મદિન નિમિત્તે લેખકે દિલ્હીમાં ગાંધી શાંતિ પ્રતિષ્ઠાનમાં વ્યાખ્યાન આપ્યું હતું. મૂળ અંગેજીમાં આપેલા આ વ્યાખ્યાનના હિન્દીમાં થયેલા અનુવાદ પરથી અહીં ગુજરાતીમાં તરજુમો પ્રસ્તુત છે). અનુવાદક: દીપક ધોળકિયા ******* લેખકનો પરિચયઃ શ્રમિક સંબંધી બાબતોના ઇતિહાસકાર, દિલ્હી યુનિવર્સિટીની રામજસ કૉલેજમાં અધ્યાપન કાર્ય કરતાં એક માળીનો પગાર રોકવાના સત્તાવાળાઓના નિર્ણય વિરુદ્ધ… Read More ગાંધીજીનું સમુદ્રી વર્તુળ
The New Age militarists are a threat to our common future. William Hartung / Originally published in TomDispatch. Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense… Read More A Manhattan Project for AI Weaponry?
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky… Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit. Jasmine Mooney There was no explanation, no warning. One minute,… Read More I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
1/ He went to bed, turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn’t dare say. John le Carre, Our Kind of Traitor; 2011, p 241 2/ We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with… Read More Reflections on ideology, morality and conscience
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:… Read More A collection of documentaries on Palestine
Mimicking the motion of combing locks of hair with a brush, Sama Tubail stares at her reflection in a mirror and begins to cry. “I’m just so sad there isn’t a single strand of hair to comb with my brush,” Sama told CNN with her head in her hands. “I hold the mirror because I… Read More ‘Mama, I’m tired – I want to die:’ Israel’s strikes leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized / Israeli airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza / Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up
After the truth-shower 