Society & Culture

The European Green Deal: Our new growth strategy

Do we, humans, want to continue living well and safely on this planet? Humanity faces an existential threat – the whole world is beginning to...

Earth in Extremis While Trump Plays Ostrich

Authors: Dr. Arshad M. Khan and Meena Miriam Yust Storms are savaging East Africa where rainfall in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is now over 300...

Towards smart sustainable cities: UNECE examines good practices to promote innovation ‎

The world is urbanizing fast. Already today, half the population is living in cities. By 2050, that proportion is projected to rise to over two thirds....

The Chosen Family from Church to Earth

Guess at the intensity behind my words. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ After all that is said...

The Secret Orchard

She wants diamonds, to live in a mansion (she thinks that’s the perfect life), to be the hostess of parties, to run her pale king’s life....

Gold-digging & Gender Biases in Pakistani Dramas

The phenomenon of gender-bias can be found in history as old as ever recorded in the form of written text or visual entertainment. Biases are...

Beauty awakens

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....

Psychic, empath or psychosis

Rita is a woman who has had visions from childhood. At night she always left her bedroom door ajar, slept with the light on, with the...

The Reward of Having a Revolutionary Spirit

I’ve made mistakes. More than a few. I haven’t always apologised for my behaviour, for the mistakes I made, the wrong journey I took, the path...

Sola Osofisan’s masterpiece ‘Blood Will Call’: A bowl of green apples, and a book review

"And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing; a local habitation and...

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