In Pictures: The Art of Resistance Endures
Scott Peterson in The Christian Science Monitor: Rarely have so many Lebanese turned out on the streets to demand wholesale political change as when they began their self-declared “October Revolution” of
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 mathematics permeates other fields. As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Should We Love Che Guevara
Portrait of “the insurgent” as a young man in The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman in Slate: The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of
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Love Letters to Stones
by Mary Hrovat in 3 Quarks Daily: I recently read the wonderfully ambiguous sentence, “The love of stone is often unrequited” in Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s book Stone: An Ecology of
FOUR Poems By Irshad Salim From ‘Sometime Somewhere’ (Video)
Published in 1977 Sometime Somewhere included 34 poems by Irshad Salim which he had penned in Karachi during his student days 1972 thru 1977. They are post-Dhaka debacle back in
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When Time Stands Still
by Raji Jayaraman: Vijay was the smartest kid in class. It was a small class, and we weren’t especially bright, but I don’t mean that he was smart in a
Pakistan: Growing Weed Instead of Tree
IRSHAD SALIM: A note from my diary Jhatke Pe Jhatka (Shock & Awe): A free and fair elections was held in 1971. It was free for sure, observers say. However,
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 fall last year Jane Clinton in The Guardian: Hanif Kureishi has spoken candidly of how
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Not Just an Object: Decolonizing Southasian Art in Berlin
A small, intricately carved ivory box from Sri Lanka was one of the highlights of a recent exhibition in Berlin aimed at ‘de-colonizing’ such artifacts By Kanika Gupta: As a
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‘I’ve Become a Reluctant Dictator’
Sarah Bell on BBC: Novelist Hanif Kureishi sustained life-changing injuries when he collapsed and landed on his head on Boxing Day last year. Left without the use of his arms
‘Ho Jamalo’
Shared by Osama Mustafa: Jamal Khan was a Train Engine Driver from a village near Sukkur in British India. For a crime, he was condemned to death by hanging. Before