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Larry the cat
Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation.  But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…
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Brutalism: The Next Liberal Order of the 21st Century
At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama pronounced, ‘what we may be witnessing [is] the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government’? What was predicted as the acme of civilizational development has instead turned into a perennial catastrophe for humanity,…
POLITICS
The Odyssey of “Nako” Mayar and his Family
I had heard of “Nako” (Uncle)  Mayar, who was looking for his missing son and to write his story I had to travel to the village Gilli in Tehsil Buleda. Buleda Tehsil is a peripheral region in an already peripheral province of Balochistan surrounded by mountains on all sides. It is located about 45 to…
POLITICS
The Ugly American Show
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.” —Henry Kissinger in William F. Buckley Jr.  United Nations Journal: A     Delegate's Odyssey (1974), pp 56–57. In the spring of 2008, a nation's intricate history was brought to the forefront in a televised spectacle: 'Great…
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The Classroom as a Battleground: Teachers as State-Builders
By Narendra Pachkhédé              "The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality”  — Mahmoud Darwish In the dusty classrooms of Gaza during the 1920s, an unassuming act of defiance unfolded—a quiet yet profound rebellion that spoke to the paradoxes of colonial rule, the audacity of educators, and the fragile scaffolding…
POLITICS Poetry
Temples of Memory, Monuments of Forgetting
There is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year.   —Arun Kolatkar, verse 22, Jejuri, 1976 Located in the ancient city of Ayodhya in northern India, the Ayodhya Temple, is one of the significant spiritual landmarks.  Revered as the birthplace of Lord Rama, a central figure in the Hindu…
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Canada at the Edge of Its Idea
     “Having to wait until one’s death to be allowed to live is really quite an ontological feat.”                       - Robert Musil, Austrian Novelist, Journalist and Writer Like a phantom limb, the unfinished The Man Without Qualities haunts the landscape of modern literature. It is…