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IRSHAD SALIM — Pakistani pyrotechnic team won the top slot in a major competition on 14th August in Moscow. The (video below) captures their ten-minute performance. Watch after 2min 15
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Terry Eagleton in Sidecar [h/t: Leonard Benardo]: A well-known member of the British left once discovered to his surprise that several of his socialist friends, including myself, had all attended
Post Script for My Mom: I was just kidding, Mom, of course, “Survivor” and “Big Brother” should exist. by Tim Sommers at 3QuarksDaily: Moral Grandstanding is using moral talk as
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The article was first published in Bengali ‘Weekly Seven Days’ Magazine in April 2022 and that was based on Dr. Rafiqul Islam’s write up on the war in the daily
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پچھلے سال، میں نے اپنی دادی کے ساتھ دو واٹس ایپ ویڈیو کلپس ان کی رائے کے لیے شیئر کیں۔ وہ میری ‘ہاروی دی ریبٹ‘ ہیں، اور بڑھاپا کو اندر
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Cooperation Without Domination Jamie Martin in the Boston Review Class & Inequality: By the end of the twentieth century, a small number of international institutions had come to wield great
The Medical Encyclopedia says, “Blindness is a lack of vision. It may also refer to a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. Partial blindness
By Priya Satia, the Raymond A. Spruance professor of international history at Stanford University: Every historian worth their salt knows that historical and local specificities ultimately render all analogies inaccurate.
Noam Maggor in the European Review of Books: Saint Domingue was the crown jewel of the French empire in the Caribbean when its slaves rebelled in 1791. They formed the
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IRSHAD SALIM – The country has been, and is running on the myopic political and the vast economic interests of beneficiaries of the political developments that emerged decades ago, as
“Recent rulings have heightened concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court is too powerful — and unaccountable in a way that harms its legitimacy.” Having citizens’ assemblies review Supreme Court decisions
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In a new book, Walter Russell Mead looks at all the ways Americans’ understanding of Israel has been refracted through their own internal conflicts and aspirations Matti Friedman in The Atlantic:
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