The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
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.
Three Women
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
How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
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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Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is generally a music to the ears in this part of the region –MNCs (Multinational Corps.)
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world and that’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history –Alon Levy Alon
US Media Is Collapsing, Here’s How to Save It
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually
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The G20 Looks South
Bruno De Conti , Pedro Rossi, Arthur Welle, and Clara Saliba in Phenomenal World: In December 2023, Brazil began presiding over the G20. The one-year presidency, which will culminate in
Geopolitics and the Geometry of Global Trade
McKinsey’s Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, January 2024) includes analysis of the changing geometry of global goods trade using four measures, each of which has its own limitations: trade intensity,
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Shockwaves in the Global Order
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the Boston Review: Just days before October 7, President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan,
‘Empire: A Ghost Story’ a Talk By Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist whose best known award-winning novel Home Fire is a must read. Shamsie has also been named on Granta magazine’s list
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An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace
About Ali Abu Awwad and Ami Dar: Nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad works to establish international peacebuilding movements. In 2016, he brought his focus to building a national nonviolent movement
An Ancient Warning on the Power and Peril of Rhetoric
John C Brady: In his dialogue Gorgias, Plato drafts a fictional conversation between Socrates and a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and teachers known as sophists, who were famed for their
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