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ADB History Book Explains Asia’s Five Decades of Economic Success
Sound economic policies and strong institutions have transformed Asia
and the Pacific over the past five decades into a center of global dynamism,
according to a...
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...
The class distinction between Ezra Pound’s Alba and Bessie Head’s Maru
But the air
is growing cold. As cold as the angst of beginners. I am not that scholarship
girl in chapters and parts. I keep on...
What Emily Dickinson can teach us
The sun is a laughing, talking, walking
miracle today. If it shines, it shines only for me and Lavinia. What
perfection, because it shines with an...
Survivors: Romantic love, the writing life and my heroine, Virginia Woolf
Her hair came undone
somehow in the water. And how it spread out. It was a flame. It was something
significant fanning, framing her beautiful, wonderful...
Thoughts after reading Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss”
You will experience happiness, I was the one who told myself this. No
one else. The museum has invited me again to one of their...
Grace, mercy, human angels, thoughts while reading Rilke’s “The Book of Hours”
Yes, I believe in angels. Have come to accept that there is even angels
who appear in human form. That there is their mission in...
Kashmir: Rage and Reason- Book Review
Kashmir is glorified the world over as
paradise on the earth, second to Switzerland in terms of scenic beauty, serene
valleys, calm and fresh waters and...
Think like Jihadist: Anatomy of Central Asian Salafi groups
Salafi Jihadism has become a serious problem in Central Asia that
encompasses five former Soviet republics - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan - collectively known...
Books: Bridges across cultures
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO has long celebrated the power of International Book and Copyright
Day, marked on 23 April, but this year,...