Siddhartha Deb/ Literary Hub In Conversation with Siddhartha Deb at PEN America's World Voices Festival. Arundhati Roy, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things along with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and My Seditious Heart, spoke with wr ...বিস্তারিত
Kartikeya Sharma, Political Editor at WION/WION It is writing on the wall. The defeat of the Congress is like the tip of an iceberg. Instead of regrouping and putting heads together, the entire opposition remains disorganised. The only glue which binds the Opposition toge ...বিস্তারিত
Channel News Asia: More than 100 fighters were killed in clashes between regime and jihadist-led forces in northwest Syria, a war monitor said Thursday (Jul 11), as violence raged on the edge of an opposition bastion despite a September truce deal. Eight civilians also died ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: The heaviest average rainfall to lash a swathe of southern and eastern China in more than half a century brought torrential rain and floods, destroying houses, damaging crops and forcing the evacuation of nearly 80,000 people, state media said. Even more rain is ex ...বিস্তারিত
Richard Norton-Taylor/Open Democracy Whitehall appears to be panicking after years of excessive secrecy and complacency. But leaks are no substitute for effective scrutiny by a functioning parliamentary democracy. The Whitehall establishment – the permanent government ...বিস্তারিত
Ali Salman Andani/Asia Times Frankly speaking, it requires a great deal of ignorance and sexism to objectify women in response to a question asked by a female interviewer – especially when it is not your first time. Mr Lhamo Thondup, more famously known as His Holiness ...বিস্তারিত
Sofia/Seven Billion Today It may seem strange but the two things are connected. They both came into my day through various channels and then I realised that they were definitely linked. The existence of one affects the other in this universe. I was out last night and I o ...বিস্তারিত
Margaret Kimberley/Eurasia Review Harris favored criminalizing truancy, raising cash bail fees and keeping prisoners locked up for cheap labor. Kamala Harris is rising in the polls after dramatically confronting Joe Biden during the Democratic primary debate about his op ...বিস্তারিত
Fawaz Turki/Gulf News Around the middle of last month, John Cusack, the popular Irish-American actor and Golden Globe Award winner, long known for his support of Palestinian rights, retweeted a meme depicting a hand, stamped with the Star of David, pushing down a group of ...বিস্তারিত
Sanzeeda Munir, an intern at BRAC Communications Going to work for the last three months meant being surrounded by blooming morning glories and green creepers. BRAC’s headquarters is in the heart of the capital, Dhaka, but it’s making waves in thousands of lives acros ...বিস্তারিত