Fashion blogger Dina Torkia: ‘There’s a fear factor around the hijab’
In a lot of ways, Dina Torkia is a typical fashion blogger. The 25-year-old’s Days of Dolls site is full of pictures of her trying out new trends against an urban backdrop and has the usual smattering of self-promotion (for her recently launched clothing range). Torkia – who blogs under the name Tokio – also has the […]
Cow is a Secular Animal
It was in 1976 that the Maharashtra Government banned cow slaughter through the “State Animal Protection Act.”The BJP-Shiv Sena faction that came to power in 1995 amended this act by prohibiting the slaughter of oxen and bullocks along with the cow. It was this amendment that was sanctioned by President Pranab Mukherjee recently. Butthe print […]
Netanyahu and Liquid: It’s Ultra Wave Again
After a successful hate campaign that lasted months, Netanyahu managed to reach a comprehensive win in Israel election on Wednesday. The Israeli media has it that Netanyahu’s Likud party won 30 seats in the 120 member Knesset, disrupting all hopes of Zionist Union winning the election. Having won the election, the Likud party now is […]
Censoring Cuss Words from your Favorite Novel? : A New App to Help
Are your favorite books so nettling with cuss words that however much you want them to read you toss them aside out of distaste? Or what if you don’t like profanity in your child’s books? Let “Clean Reader” make it easy for you. This new app censors e-books from cuss words. The app has been […]
Does Pharaoh’s ghost still haunt Egypt?
The much criticized authoritarianism of Egyptian president Abdul Fatah al-Sisi has picked up steam with the sentencing to death of Muhammed Badie, Muslim Brotherhood leader, in Cairo on Monday. Mohamed Badie, a senior leader of Muslim brotherhood, as well as 21 members of the movement has been awarded death penalty for allegedly preparing attacks against the Egyptian […]
US again in the Latino Quagmire
The United States has not stopped imagining an ideological enemy in the larger picture it made of a unilateral world order, a conception that has disrupted an array of democratic political processes in the world, especially that of the middle east. An African American president, whose enthroning of American presidency produced some books that claimed […]
Racism: Is Liberal West Free from Filth?
It is argued that liberal democracies no longer reel under the oppressive customs such as racism. Only Asian countries like India and Pakistan bear the brunt of aggressive, pre-modern social customs. The Ferguson Shooting is a foil for this liberal democratic myth, if anything. The shooting of Mr. Brown, who was unarmed, led to a […]
Erdogan and Modi: Parallel journeys?
Back in March 2013, when I received and accepted an invitation to visit Bogazici University, I did not for a moment imagine that my arrival in Turkey would follow hot on the heels of a historic election in India. But so it did: I landed in Istanbul on June 1, 2014, five days after the […]
Haruki Murakami on Writing Novels and Bob Dylan
Author Haruki Murakami has continued to answer 20 to 30 questions per day on his temporary ‘ask-me-anything’-style website, which has received more than 30,000 messages from fans according to organizers. Although the website stopped taking any new questions on Jan. 31, the author is scheduled to continue posting his replies until about late March. In […]
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