Month: June 2022
A Chat With Ayub From Bangladesh (Video)
Former Pakistani tennis player Saeed Meer Sahib introduced Ayub, a Bangladeshi youth who works at…
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…
Putin On Piano, and His Walk (Video)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an impromptu piano rendition before meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping…
Robots Write Pretty Good Poetry
Will T. at The Believer: Let’s consider where AI poetry is in 2022. Long after…
The Democracy of the Future
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: In The Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States and The…
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…
The Black Hole (Short 2008)
Black Hole is a British film: A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole…
‘We Need to Talk About Asian American Mental Health’
Dr. Jenny Wang, author of Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans…
Franz Kafka: The Drawings
George Prochnik at Literary Review: Wispy, thick, swirled and streaking, the dark lines burst outward,…
‘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…
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…
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….