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This utterly delicious recipe by Zainab Shah (published in NY Times) melds tomatoes, onions and a small cloud of spices into a delicious sauce. The ingredient list is long, but
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Mishra is an Indian author based in the West and a staunch supporter of Israel’s victims. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the author
Friends today, foes tomorrow? Touqir Hussain writes at Dawn: Soon after the results started pouring in following the Feb 8 general elections in Pakistan, several members of the US Congress,
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How freedom and morality are intertwined Dana Dragunoiu at the IAI: We think the consequences of our actions are key to whether they are morally right or wrong. However, for
Happiness is a state of mind…it’s a choice. Someday you will meet the happiest version of you. And it will be worth it.
Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British colonial India in which
There’s a reason we keep forgetting things, Charan Ranganath -a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, writes in “Why We Remember,” and we needn’t worry about it.
Irshad Salim from Karachi: For months I have on my easel a canvas of three women drawn with a black marker. The painting remains unfinished though. Choice of colors and
There’s this group of nerds called ICANN—the Internet. Its a non-profit Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and they have handed out seven keys to seven individuals spread across the
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Dana Brown goes in search of the long-lost media power lunch—and finds it’s alive and well at Michael’s, a Manhattan restaurant that still feels exactly like it did 30 years
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold nearly a hundred million copies. Joan Acocella at Literary Hub: What made The Prophet so fantastically successful?
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Culture war narratives give Google’s organizational coherence a bit too much credit. There’s more to the story. by Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology: It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar