Nepal: They don’t want any “leftovers”
Nepal has requested India to not to send any old clothes as part of relief supplies for earthquake victims. India was the among the first countries to respond with a massive relief mission after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake flattened large parts of Nepal on April 25, leaving over 7,000 people dead and countless others homeless. […]
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Orhan Pamuk and our problematic of separation
Last week I read a column that director Nuri Bilge Ceylan”s Golden Palm award for his movie “Winter”s Sleep” at Cannes Film Festival did not separate the society. True, Ceylan”s speech in which he stated the following “I am dedicating this award to those who have lost their lives last year and those who lost […]
Social Media: From the good ones to the bad
The horrific Nepal earthquake of 2015, which has left over 3,200 people dead and many more injured, has once again shown how crises unfold in various ways in this social media obsessed age. For starters, the current Indian government has got its social media strategy spot-on when it comes to dealing with crises, even the […]
Nepal earthquake; death toll tops 3,700
At least 3,700 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday. Nepal police said in a statement on Monday that the death toll had risen to 3,617 people. That number does not include the 18 people confirmed dead in an avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest […]
Yemen: Conflict Persists Even After Saudi Walks Away
Despite Saudi Arabia’s decision to end the month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels and to back a political solution to bring peace to Yemen, Militiamen in Southern Yemen said on Tuesday that they would not withdraw from fighting rebels until they move them away from the region. The residents told Reuters that […]
Yemen Crisis: Iran bashing and Burqa Sneak-away
The United States has mounted a critique of Iranian military intervention in Yemen, alleging that Iranian vessels have carried weapons to Houthi rebels in the country. The Iranian convoy is reported to have comprised of nine ships and two patrol boats. While the US has made it clear that it would not take part directly […]
When Art Explores the World’s Mysteries
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the recently concluded Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Art opens a door: to the infinities of universe, to the obscurities of human innerness, to the possibilities of another world. Sometimes a spiritual ascension. An unexpected prophetic rescue from the imminent descent into the cave of evilness. Existing or nonexistent. Realistic or surrealistic. Standing before certain […]
Philippines: Consternation over US\China War Games
The Philippines has condemned what they would term Chinese aggressiveness with the aid of the US in disputed regional waters. As part of their campaign against Chinese encroachment, the Philippine military chief General Gregorio Catapang has revealed the satellite photos of recent Chinese construction over seven reefs and shoals in the Spratly archipelago of the […]
Unrest in Yemen: Beyond Sunni-Shia Cliches
‘Sectarian’ is the trait adjective in the media coverage on the contemporary conflicts in the North African/West Asian regions. However, by ‘sectarian’ they rarely mean the much-too familiar racial or communal sectarianism, but rather than religious sectarianism partitioned between the Sunnis and Shias. Why the word sectarianism acquires such an instant translation should be discussed […]
Stilled, the Drumbeat : Gunter Grass (1927-2015)
On Monday, Gunter Grass, one of the rarest rebels in the literary scene, bid us goodbye. Noted for candour in making judgments on issues, sharpness in his arguments, unwavering passion for life, lucidity in prose, the Nobel Laureate died in the northern German city of Lübeck, his home for decades. He was 87 and was […]
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