Wednesday Poem: What We Leave Behind

My father drank salt water mixed with airAnd sacrificed his legs and calloused hands at…

Six Reasons Why Artists Should Avoid Politics

The artist has access to a certain truth, a truth that is less about morality than it is about . . . what, exactly?

Enough Water Has Been Found to Cover the Surface of the Red Planet – But There’s a Catch

The team used the same techniques used to search for water on Earth, or to look for oil and gas. They were excited to make their discovery but…

Does Hasina’s Exit Mark the End of Bangladesh’s Political Dynasties?

For the moment, there may be an opportunity for Bangladesh to have fresh voices and faces in politics emerging from the student movement.

Galileo and the Pope

Arifa Noor at Dawn: As a journalist who has been slogging at it for decades, the talent and creativity of those who are using social media never ceases to amaze me.

‘Life with Picasso’ & ‘La Collectionneuse’

Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico at Commonweal: We’re publishing these exchanges just about every two…

Tuesday Poem: A Life Spent Reading

There is no shortage of good days.It is good lives that are hard to come…

Tejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India

From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political…

Monday Poetic Expression: A Night Alone in the Wilderness

By Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: I march on. The soil is soft and sandy…

Random Thought: Upside Down

Irshad Salim: Yesterday, I visited a Foundation in Karachi which had started a drug addict…

Sunday Poem: War and Peace

“These are “poems” I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme…”

Memoir: After all a Special Project

Habib Khan, Quetta: Saindak has been the first Copper Gold project much before Reko Dik…