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Amidst Anxiety Over Survival, Critiques Surge On Obama’s Interference
When he was sworn in as the first Black President of the United States, Barack Obama was celebrated as having made history and the moment was etched in the history of the United States as an erasure of the last lingering traces of racism. But the same man has recently hit the headlines for wrong […]
Muhammad Asad Between Religion and Politics
In April 2011 an international symposium was held in Riyadh, under the auspices of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies as well as the Austrian Embassy to Saudi Arabia, on the life and work of my father. The conference as a whole was entitled “Muhammad Asad – A Life for Dialogue,” but […]
The Beauty Cult
Interactive features ‘If you undergo Botox treatement by getting botox (Botulinum toxin) injucted at a moderate amount, it won’t cause you any problems,’ this is an automated statement of cosmetics specialists the world over. But in some instances, what determines the moderation has never been fixed. And in a euphroic attempt to enhance our beauty, […]
A Garden of Identities: Multiple Selves and Other Futures
I close my eyes and think of a future world. A visionary world, thirty, forty years from today. A world not of new humanity but a plethora of old and new humanities. A world where more than one of way of being human is not only the norm but is considered essential for the very […]
Mappila Songs: As pendulum swings between the Past and Present
Each community does have a distinct musical sub-conscious and the task of a critic is to demarcate the distinctiveness. The musical sub-conscious will get reflected in their slang, dress, cuisine and other features. The musical sub-conscious of the Mappila community can be analyzed by dissecting the lyrics and structures of Mappila songs. Such an analysis, […]
New AIDS: Fear Rules the Roost
As medical history the world over has always been linked to political maneuvering, it has yet to be seen, and it’s the duty of all concerned to see, whether the disease might not be used as a springboard for anti-immigrant hysteria. It is believed that Charles Darwin, in pursuit of fossiles to prove his theory […]
Islamic Economic Summit: Does it Hold out a Different Promise?
Economic summits are both remarkable and notorious. Remarkable in the sense that they are usually convened in the context (or aftermath) of several financial breakdowns and that economic think-tanks are expected to contribute tips on how to save economies from ever colliding with the icebergs of slump. Notorious in the sense that not only is […]
Hacktivism is Target of US Defence Research
The American Ministry of Defense is funding research into the rapidly advancing and engrossing world of cyber space detailing several projects including the one on the culture of computer hackers, crowd behavior at music festivals and football matches, and the impact of Twitter, Facebook and online conspiracy theories in times of crisis.PhD students of various […]
Iran and Snowden: Obama Tries but Fails to Whitewash
Barack Obama has been in news of late. Time carried him, along with Tim Cook and Malala Yusuf Sai, in its cover, which means he mattered in the year 2013. Amidst raging controversies on the feasibility of his reform moves to save the US economy, there is much talk on him in the western press […]
‘West’s hypocrisy: ‘Grass beats the tin drum’
Guntar Grass has again been in the news. Shocked earlier by his revelations about his involvement as a seventeen-year-old in the Nazi SS during the World War II in his autobiography ‘Peeling the Onion’, the Nobel laureate author has shouted in a poem titled ‘What Must Be Said’ against the policies the Israel government is […]
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