Society & Culture

Stanley Kubrick visionary-filmmaker and the journals of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Losing pieces of your identity already in childhood. At the end of every pilgrimage in my childhood, there was a line that was always a painful...

Thanksgiving Also Means Giving Thanks for Our Planet

It is Thanksgiving holiday in the US.  The Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving and the European Parliament has held an election.  It has chosen former German...

Catalysing change for gender equality

Great strides have been taken to empower women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing adopted an ambitious...

Asking for forgiveness, fixing pain and the language of blood

There’s alchemy in daily prayer when you release that element of the weariness of the world. Humanity when you witness the profound harm that human beings...

Ethics, Truth and Post-Truth: Political and social implications

I want to reflect on ethics, truth and post-truth in the context of accelerated changes in the economy, politics, society, culture and digital knowledge, information and...

The prophets who will awaken someone else, and theology standing on its own

Smiley missed his mother’s touch and her kisses, which felt like the smooth, ruffling of feathers. She worked as a domestic worker what people where he...

Whither Islamophobia? An instance of SION

The entire humanity together ought to start working, concentrating on underpinning and strengthening the part of compassion, love, and sympathy from enriched Islamic philosophy into the overall...

The imagined journal entries of Sylvia Plath nearing the end of her life

The page frees me in a sense, in a way I can’t describe. I write and that’s my life. I am a mother and a...

Gender equality: It’s time for disruption, time to shatter the status quo. We can’t afford to wait!

If you are a gender champion, then you are familiar with the discussions around the glass cliff.  The story of women eager to defy the...

A lesson in Naomi Wolf’s promiscuities and an open space where poetry matters

Shut the door. Shut out the quiet light. Tell yourself to swim away from the tigers with arms pillars of smoke. One day I will...

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