When Jawaharlal Nehru Read ‘Lolita’ to Decide Whether an ‘Obscene’ Book Should Be Allowed in India
After a consignment of Vladimir Nabokov’s famed book landed on Indian shores, a debate over its ban spanned Customs and...
Month: June 2022
Smoke and Bubble (Video)
Alluring and evanescent, smoke and bubbles are unusual subjects that, with some practice, produce utterly unique expressions. While smoke is...
A Google Engineer Claims One of Their AIs Has Become Sentient
Blake Lemoine, the software engineer, reported this to the US government and was subsequently suspended by Google for violation of...
Politics Put Pakistan Economy in a Perpetual State of Crisis
TALKING POINTS: THE slide seems unstoppable...The government’s hopes of sealing the IMF deal and the promise of a bailout from...
After 4 Shots and Two Masks Fauci Catches Covid
NEWS OF INTEREST (NOI): Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday. Fauci, 81,...
Muslim Minorities ‘Under Attack’ in India (Videos)
Muslim minorities are under attack in India - front-ended by extremist Hindu activists and supported by the police, a source...
On Social Media (Video)
Some WhatsApp Shares Curated by Irshad Salim - based in Karachi, to reflect on Social Media - as he sees...
Pakistan’s Internal Revenue (FBR) Detects Rs1bn ($5m) Tax Fraud
NEWS OF INTEREST (NOI): Pakistan's Directorate of Internal Audit-Inland Revenue of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has detected a...
Bangladesh Economy: From High Growth to “Crisis at Both Ends”?
At 50 years, Bangladesh has entered an era of high growth, low inflation, rising income levels and falling poverty rate....
Music for Pleasure, Such As… (Video)
Without music life would be a mistake —NietzscheNo man is a hypocrite in his pleasures —Dr Johnson BERING STRAIT SERIES:...
