Stemming From The Same Origin
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (born James Ngugi; January 5, 1938 – May 28, 2025), the Kenyan author and academic who has been described as the leading novelist of East Africa and […]
Dar al-Reaya: The Secret Rehab Centre In Saudi
A young woman is standing dangerously on the window ledge of a two-story building and is apparently helped down by a group of men on a crane. This image, clicked […]
Kashmir’s Iconic Bookstore Shuts Down
Another pride of the Kashmiri people has been silently erased, along with its 45 years of glory. Bestseller, the iconic bookstore situated in a quiet corner of Lal Chowk in […]
Women Buried With Around 270,000 Beads
Archaeologists recently found around 270,000 white beads while excavating 5,000-year-old graves of women at the Montelirio Tholos burial site in Seville, Spain. Although archaeologists discovered those graves in 2008, they […]
The Child Of Sufferings
“The scars on our children’s faces/will look for you./Our children’s amputated legs/will run after you.” It seems that it is not just a verse, but a curse. Mosab Abu Toha […]
The Social Impact Of ‘Use & Throw’ Culture
Sixty-five years ago, when I got my cycle out of the house for a ride, I was interrupted by a friend with the question: “Hey, where are you going?” I […]
Understanding Bhagavad Gita
IntroductionOnce, Swami Vivekānanda (born Narendranath Datta; January 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902), an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna, […]
The ‘Illiberal’ Liberal Arts
If we must turn to AI for answers to any and every question, can we not get AI to help us ask the right question? That was the first thought […]
On Techno-Feudalism
Imagine one has just moved to a new city which has shopping malls, parks, cafés, theatres, etc. People are shopping, listening to music and buying books in one of those […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 