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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UFO’s Mysterious Hidden Messages
Top ten Alien codes/messages found in the South Asian subcontinent and across the globe that just might contain proof of otherworldly contact. Example: patterns of mandala, vimana, etc.
Winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024
The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition were announced in an award ceremony in Mayfair, London. Participants submitted their pics in 13 categories, including Macro, Wide
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Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History
A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist (Picasso of the North), a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam
Ant Geopolitics
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own John Witfield at Aeon Magazine: It is a familiar story:
Hegel’s World Revolutions
Terry Eagleton at the London Review of Books: The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he had once talked a student out of suicide by pointing out to him that the
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
Mir Taqi Mir on Poverty | میر تقی میر غربت پر
پاکستان کے نامور شاعر اور دانشور ایک مثال دیتے ہیں کہ شاعری کس طرح ایک سوچ کو سمیٹ سکتی ہے
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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Binaca Geetmala’s Golden Voice Ameen Sayani
Ameen Sayani, 91, who achieved fame and popularity all across the Subcontinent, and became a household name with his signature ‘Behno aur Bhaiyo’ greeting while hosting the iconic radio program
One Nation Under Guns
How Gun Culture Distorts America’s History and Threatens Its Democracy. Book By Dominic Erdozain This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun