Category: Region
Ruling Coalition Scores Big Win in Japan Following Nationalist Leader Shinzo Abe Assassination
Japan’s ruling coalition scored a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday as the nation…
Sri Lanka President, PM to Resign After Tumultuous Protests (Video)
Thousands of protesters entered the capital, Colombo, and swarmed into President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s fortified residence….
Cairo: City of a Thousand Booksellers
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES Report: Here are some of the oldest places to buy books…
‘I Feel Free Here’: A Desert School in India (Video)
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES REPORT: The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls’ School in north-western India’s Rajasthan desert…
Rudolf Lehnert’s ‘Bahira’: One Picture, Two Stories
Muhammad Ahsan Kureshi in The Nation: I’m reading ‘The homoerotics of Orientalism’ by Joseph Boone…
Shinzo Abe: Tragic End of a Nationalist Leader (Video)
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was his country’s longest-serving PM. As one of the…
Fetrah, an Anti-Gay Campaign Emerges in Egypt (Video)
A new Egyptian movement called Fetrah is emerging to combat the homosexual-lesbian movement. Young people…
‘India Cannot Be of Hindus Only’: Nobel Laureate and Economist Amartya Sen
TWO respected authors who have written extensively on regional affairs share their comment on Nobel…
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy – love, loss and longing
The story of a potter’s love for a girl explores myth, memory and the act…
Qatar: Faster Than We Thought
Omar El Akkado in Orion: I grew up in Qatar, a tiny peninsula off the…
Decoding Income Inequality, Disparity. Taxing the Super Rich (Video)
The richest 1pct collectively owns 9pct of Pakistan’s income.The feudal lords, the 1pct of the…
Digital Training in 1000 Pakistani Villages Yields Bumper Participation
By Irfan Ulhaq: RAHIM YAR KHAN, Punjab, Pakistan, (IPS) – Farmer Abdul Waheed, 32, has…