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Category: Culture

Pain, e-Pen & Penitentiary…

It seems that a blasphemous tweet has proved to be expensive for a 28-year-old Indian engineer, who has landed in a jail in Saudi Arabia. Vishnu Dev from the southern Indian […]

Ghazee & Shaheed: A Just Adjustment?

Dr Tariq Rahman – a Pakistani academic who has authored the book ‘Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: An Intellectual History’ – believes that jihad (a struggle or fight against the […]

Discipline & Danse Macabre

It is believed that Nataraja (or the King of Dancers) – the dancing form of Lord Shiva and a symbolic synthesis of the most important aspects of Hinduism – completes the […]

Truly Sonorous?

This never happened before! Not a single drop of coffee fell on the ground from a cup… This time, the cup fell from her hand! The incident disturbed Florencia Rastelli, […]

L’Étranger!

The spontaneous movement and performance of a human body depend on how it accepts a completely unknown (body) part. However, there is a contradiction in this process (of acceptance)! Immigrants, […]

Faith On Display!

Some have given up wearing hijabs (or headscarves or veils worn by Muslim women in the presence of any male outside of their immediate family), while some have announced their […]

Desecrating Red’s Name

Istanbul is not only the city of Nobel laureate Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, but also the city that has witnessed many political murders! From the near and dear ones of top Ottoman emperors to Chechen guerrillas, a number of eminent personalities have been assassinated in this historic city. The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is the latest addition to the list.

The ‘Teething’ Issues?

A tiny blue-coloured mysterious stone is stuck in the teeth of a 1,000-year-old woman’s skeleton! But, how is it possible? As archaeologists made an attempt to resolve the mystery, they […]