Society & Culture

New lives, new freedoms: How labour migration empowers Nepali women

When I first met Ram Kumari Chaudhary, she was an extremely shy, but solemn, 19-year-old. She told me she wanted to go to work in...

The Prayer

This is goodbye. Saying goodbye to a sister who is going to teach English overseas. I haven’t got time for the pain. When I’m through with...

The psychology of forgiveness

A few weeks ago, I found myself saying goodbye to someone I love again. This time quite literally forever. Saying goodbye to a sister who is...

Ecca poet Silke Heiss and Emily Dickinson (Beauty awakens the root of it)

There is my reflection in the window. She dances. She dances. She dances. Look at me, Master. I am wearing my dancing shoes. I am dancing....

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

There is a dwelling that I exist in. This far out between heaven and hell she is, my mother is still beautiful. She was beautiful, and...

Cruelty to Animals Gets More Media Coverage than Beheaded Christians

- The Bishops' Conference of Nigeria described the area as "killing fields", like the ones the Khmer Rouge created in Cambodia to exterminate the population. - "We...

Tipping Points in Australia’s Climate Change debates. Where to Now?

A record-breaking high summer came early to Australia in 2019. By October, the daily weather map of the country was charting the rapid spread of catastrophic...

Harper Lee’s sigh towards God and the signature psychology in her writing of To Kill A Mockingbird

There is blood in our silence, and in our silence the milk and honey, assertion and defiance of language lives and breathes. In our projections from...

The drive for quality education worldwide, faces ‘mammoth challenges’

Aligning inclusive, quality education with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was centre-stage on Friday, as the President of the UN General Assembly held a high-level interactive...

Vincent van Gogh: The Other. Now we will both drown in agony, despair and ecstasy

Now he belongs to the elite. Like a photo workshop, even the trying decline of the citizenship (belonging to the working and lower middle classes) of stigma...

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