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On the trail of Javed Iqbal, one of the most prolific and less-studied mysopeds of our time. New film on his life and crimes renews interest in the man who
Continue readingRape, dissolve in acid: How a serial killer in Pakistan murdered 100 children
The story of a potter’s love for a girl explores myth, memory and the act of transformation…it’s an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a
Continue readingThe Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy – love, loss and longing
WhatsApp shared by Ghulam Mustafa, Ph.D, USA: It started with AI: I started working on ML about 10 years ago as a natural extension of my interest in probability and
A WhatsApp share by Moshiur Rehman from NJ, USA: This is about four close friends who studied in the same school up to Senior High School. At that time, there
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Ronald Brownstein in The Atlantic: It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and
For all their disparate political goals and motivations, what unites the far left and far right is their relationship to U.S. politics…via the horseshoe theory of politics. As a result,
Continue readingWhy America’s Far Right and Far Left Have Aligned Against Helping Ukraine
Great quotes, words of inspiration, words of wisdom from the Tropic of Cancer region: Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucious; Only when you drink from the
Continue readingInspirational Quotes From Tropic of Cancer Region (Video)
Lychee season is now in full swing in Pakistan and Bangladesh and in Southeast Asia with a variety of the delicious tropical fruit flooding major cities to make summer sweeter:
Omar El Akkado in Orion: I grew up in Qatar, a tiny peninsula off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. Less than a century ago, before the boom, it was
The richest 1pct collectively owns 9pct of Pakistan’s income.The feudal lords, the 1pct of the population owns 22pct of all arable farmland. The richest 20pct command 50pct of the national
Continue readingDecoding Income Inequality, Disparity. Taxing the Super Rich (Video)
By Arthur Allen at Kaiser Health News: The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company—Pfizer—making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19
Continue readingHow PFIZER Won Pandemic — in Profit and Influence
Russia’s defense minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of