A Chat With Ayub From Bangladesh (Video)
Former Pakistani tennis player Saeed Meer Sahib introduced Ayub, a Bangladeshi youth who works at a food outlet in DHA, Karachi. Meer Sahib is a frequent visitor to the outlet
A Conversation With Saeed Meer, Former Pakistani Tennis Player (Video)
Bumped this evening into Saeed Meer, the former Pakistani tennis player who had a successful Davis Cup career, with a 26–14 win–loss record: Will share more conversations with Meer (75)
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Putin On Piano, and His Walk (Video)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an impromptu piano rendition before meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the first day of the Belt and Road Forum held in May 2017 in
Robots Write Pretty Good Poetry
Will T. at The Believer: Let’s consider where AI poetry is in 2022. Long after Racter’s 1984 debut, there are now scores of websites that use Natural Language Processing to
The Democracy of the Future
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: In The Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States and The End of Nation-States, I explain how communication technologies created the nation-state, and why the Internet
The Invisible Citizen: Why the Absence of Muslim MPs and MLAs in India’s BJP Party is Disturbing
Mahua Moitra writes in The Indian Express: In about a month’s time, the BJP, the self-proclaimed “largest political party in the world”, will cease to have a single Muslim Member
The Black Hole (Short 2008)
Black Hole is a British film: A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole late one night, photocopies it -and then greed gets the better of him. The 3-minute
‘We Need to Talk About Asian American Mental Health’
Dr. Jenny Wang, author of Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans (Balance, May 2022), says that children of Asian immigrants often have to maintain a balancing
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Franz Kafka: The Drawings
George Prochnik at Literary Review: Wispy, thick, swirled and streaking, the dark lines burst outward, racing or splintering. The strongest impression one is left with while paging through this exquisitely
‘Napalm Girl’ at 50: The Story of the Vietnam War’s Defining Photo
Oscar Holland at CNN: The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining image not only of the Vietnam War but the 20th century. Dark
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARADOX: Nearly All Democracies Uptil Now Have Been Democracies in Name Only
The right to say anything has been a challenge to every democracy that has ever existed By Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing in The Democratic Paradox: We can now add
9000 Years Ago People Went In and Out Of Their Houses Through Openings In The Roofs
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES: Houses of Çatalhöyük (Reconstruction) – modern-day Konya, Turkey, c. 7,000 BC. The Mud-brick houses were clustered together and there were no outside doors. People went in
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