Category: Arts

In Pictures: The Art of Resistance Endures

Scott Peterson in The Christian Science Monitor: Rarely have so many Lebanese turned out on the…

The Mathematician Who Finds Poetry in Math and Math in Poetry

Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways…

The Motorcycle Diaries: Should We Love Che Guevara

Portrait of “the insurgent” as a  young man in The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman in…

Love Letters to Stones

by Mary Hrovat in 3 Quarks Daily: I recently read the wonderfully ambiguous sentence, “The…

FOUR Poems By Irshad Salim From ‘Sometime Somewhere’ (Video)

Published in 1977 Sometime Somewhere included 34 poems by Irshad Salim which he had penned…

When Time Stands Still

by Raji Jayaraman: Vijay was the smartest kid in class. It was a small class,…

Pakistan: Growing Weed Instead of Tree

IRSHAD SALIM: A note from my diary Jhatke Pe Jhatka (Shock & Awe): A free…

Hanif Kureishi: Accident ‘Completely Eradicated’ Sense of Self and Privacy

Author says he had to adjust to ‘becoming another person’ after injuries in Boxing Day…

Not Just an Object: Decolonizing Southasian Art in Berlin

A small, intricately carved ivory box from Sri Lanka was one of the highlights of…

‘I’ve Become a Reluctant Dictator’

Sarah Bell on BBC: Novelist Hanif Kureishi sustained life-changing injuries when he collapsed and landed…

‘Ho Jamalo’

Shared by Osama Mustafa: Jamal Khan was a Train Engine Driver from a village near…

Portraits (Video)