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A Filmmaker’s Novel Idea
Mostly filmmakers are cocooned in the world of cameras and visuals. They take a pen only to make necessary corrections in the screenplay to be shot. Some geniuses like Kieslowski and Chaplin have written memoirs. Novelists usually become screenwriters. Masters like William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Truman Capote have are examples. Others stuck to the […]
Slow Rebellion in the Age of Hyper-parenting
Carl Honore has been compared backhandedly to Karl Marx. According to the Financial Times Honore’s book In Praise of Slowness is to slow movement what Das Capital is to Communism. It’s not wrong to say that the book named as slow movement sporadic incidents of protests against quick, fast paced lives by bringing lives to […]
Will Speed Survive US?
The game series with which smart phones fall instantly in love is the zeitgeist of this millennium. We crave speed and annihilate snails. No matter if we become hares in the hubris of being speedsters, leaving the space for tortoises to claim the victory spot. Though you fall asleep midway, the fact that you ‘can’ run like a […]
“A Bitter Disppointment”, Edward Said on his encounter with Sartre, De Beauvoir and Foucault
In 1979, Edward Said was invited by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to France for a conference on Middle East peace. It was in the wake of the Camp David Accords that ended the war between Egypt and Israel, that the author of “Orientalism” and ardent supporter of the Palestinian people, was invited to contribute with […]
Kurdish rivals unite to fight Islamic State
Erbil, Iraq – The President of Iraq’s Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, visited fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the first time last week, after the PKK joined Kurdish Peshmerga forces to expel the Islamic State group from the town of Makhmour. In a video published online, Barzani thanked the PKK fighters: “We are […]
No, it’s not anti-semitic
Profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-semitic in their effect if not their intent. Lawrence Summers, 17 September 2002. When the president of Harvard University declared that to criticise Israel at this time and to call on universities to […]
No, it’s not anti-semitic
Profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-semitic in their effect if not their intent. Lawrence Summers, 17 September 2002. When the president of Harvard University declared that to criticise Israel at this time and to call on universities to […]
Ramadan Chronicle: Purification
This Ramadan as well as in all Ramadans, renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan speaks about the spirituality which we reignite and about its relevance to the whole lives on earth. Spirituality is in conversation with our day-to-day existence. His lecture goes on on each day of this month and we can listen to them both […]
Ramadan Chronicle: Remembrance
This Ramadan as well as in all Ramadans, renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan speaks about the spirituality which we reignite and about its relevance to the whole lives on earth. Spirituality is in conversation with our day-to-day existence. His lecture goes on on each day of this month and we can listen to them both […]
Ramadan Chronicle: Love
This Ramadan as well as in all Ramadans, renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan speaks about the spirituality which we reignite and about its relevance to the whole lives on earth. Spirituality is in conversation with our day-to-day existence. His lecture goes on on each day of this month and we can listen to them both […]
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