Tropic of Cancer Series: Mother’s Day, THREE Quotes, Emojis and a 3D Art
Stories in Pictures, Videos: Tropic of Cancer Series. Curated by Irshad Salim, Islamabad
Stories in Pictures, Videos: Tropic of Cancer Series. Curated by Irshad Salim, Islamabad
A Harry Potter event was canceled at an upcoming book festival in New Zealand over headline-making comments the best selling author J.K. Rowling made, in which she said only women can menstruate.
Written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Reza Kheradmandan, this 60+ seconds short film captures the universality of the longing we all have for a mother’s embrace –it took my
Continue readingMOTHER: This 1-Minute Iranian Film Took My Breathe Away (Video)
That’s one of the arguments in Simon McCarthy-Jones’s “Spite,” which Sarah Lyall in her review calls “a highly entertaining book that should be read more as an illuminating examination of
The science behind pleasure and happiness is sourced in the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. It draws heavily on research summarized in the book The Hacking of the American Mind,
Continue readingDifference Between Pleasure and Happiness (Video)
AMARTYA SEN at the Nobel website: Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes
Continue readingAmartya Sen, Gulzar on Rabindranath Tagore (Video)
YANNI, 66, is a composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer (without formal music training). He has employed musicians of various nationalities and has incorporated a variety of exotic instruments to
Continue readingYanni’s Tribute to the Taj Mahal, Plus This (Videos)
Curated by Irshad Salim, using motion in graphics videoclip are the seven (7) decades of nation building…
A book published in Canada –in August 2020, narrates some of the atrocities committed by militant Bengalis on Biharis and on West Pakistanis –during the period 1970-71, in former East
Continue readingRefugee: Unsettled as I Roam: My Endless Search for a Home
Look around you. There are houses and buildings. What you see, however, is probably not eye-catching architecture. Here’s one in Hyderabad, the capital of southern India’s Telangana state. It’s Department
Continue readingTHIS BUILDING in Hyderabad, India is SHAPED Like a FISH
In my dreamsI paint like Vermeer van Delft. I speak fluent Greekand not just with the living. I drive a carthat does what I want it to. I am giftedand
Continue readingA Poem In Praise of Dreams; A Song By Elvis Presley and Mohammad Rafi (Video)
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