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Lessons From Singapore: Urban Planning and Garden Spaces
Singapore’s leadership realized sanitation, landscaping and urban planning were not just about livability or property values. … Continue readingLessons From Singapore: Urban Planning and Garden Spaces
Nostalgic Smiles: Habib Khan Memoir
While returning from my morning walk, I listen to some old songs recorded on my cell phone. Each song reminds me of a person, event, or happening from the past,
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s life story isn’t widely known and few of us would be able to identify him from a photograph. … Continue readingMondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Why Some Human Brains Don’t Rot for Thousands of Years
The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the hours after death, its enzymes typically devour it from within… … Continue readingWhy Some Human Brains Don’t Rot for Thousands of Years
Gandhi on 7 Social Sins, and a Manto Quote
Gandhi published the list in 1925. He also gave the list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, on a piece of paper before his assassination. … Continue readingGandhi on 7 Social Sins, and a Manto Quote
The Specter and the Shadows
My oldest friends are from the Bronx. A half-dozen of them, and all without any parents remaining. Me, still with a mother who… … Continue readingThe Specter and the Shadows
Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, and the Tumultuous Making of On the Waterfront
How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando. … Continue readingMarlon Brando, Elia Kazan, and the Tumultuous Making of On the Waterfront
Ayad Akhtar Wants Writers to Reckon with AI
McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, focuses on an egocentric, self-destructive… … Continue readingAyad Akhtar Wants Writers to Reckon with AI
Europe Can’t ‘Trump-Proof’ Itself
European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years. … Continue readingEurope Can’t ‘Trump-Proof’ Itself
Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli… … Continue readingMachiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
A Lever is Needed to Make Change
“Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world” is a quote by the great scientist Archimedes. He is also reported to have said, “Give me a