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Zoheb Mashiur

The West, FIFA and Us: We're all being hypocritical about the World Cup

Pro-migrant, anticolonial discourse has been weaponised to support Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup
1 December 2022, 14:30 PM

Mermaids aren’t real, and neither is race

Our current conceptualisation of race derives heavily from the last couple centuries of European imperialism.
11 October 2022, 12:00 PM

Declan Walsh's 'The Nine Lives of Pakistan': A journalist explains the country that banished him

In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by “angels”.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM

An anarchist retelling of Tintin

The globetrotting hero-reporter, he of the blonde quiff and the plus four trousers, had many an adventure throughout a 46-year-long run under
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI

Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM

The Dead Can’t Dance

The death’s head is panther-stalking her through the party. Bodies washed in neon pink ebb and flow, sinking and rising from the shadows as light thrums.
21 November 2019, 18:00 PM

The trap of Re-Orientalism

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, a man with a silly name who only had a career because West met East and immediately mugged it, running off with wallet, shoes and pants. Through Kipling’s pen, the British
22 August 2019, 18:00 PM

World’s marrow

The old demon king was named Jael and he had a hunger for meat.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM

TV's Best Sci-fi Right Now

There is little in The Expanse's cold open of a lone woman in a spaceship having a nightmarish encounter that indicates it is the start of something remarkable.
12 April 2017, 18:00 PM

How to breathe in Dhaka

You had best learn to take care of yourself and your loved ones
29 March 2017, 18:00 PM

THE TEETH OF MAN

Ten thousand were the teeth in Mashgaru's smiling mouth, with still more hidden until needed.
29 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Drowning Lands

Though Dzong had never seen the sea before, his baby sister loved it.
15 March 2017, 18:00 PM

How to BE a Pagri

In an age of globalisation we are at risk of having our own home-grown culture swamped by foreign imports.
15 March 2017, 18:00 PM

How to Handle Information in 2017

The world is a complex web of events that may be geographically distant but have real and immediate consequences.
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM

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It is used to describe a state of sadness that appears long-term and unshakeable.
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Chalice Hymnal

It is a sunless afternoon and a woman sits alone on her porch under the wind chimes. Bells and horns sound from the top of a great stone temple welcoming the evening tide. An unshaven man prowls the nameless alleys in the dead hours of the night, searching for you.
1 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Global warming sets the stage for war

The first time I encountered the concept of a war for the environment was in the Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series of strategy games.
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The Hair Loss Experience

I suffered from severe dandruff problems as a teenager (ladies). I combatted this with a ferocious grooming program that saw me going at my hair with a comb whenever my hands were free.
15 February 2017, 18:00 PM

ROME AND ITS MANY SEQUELS

The experiences of puberty strongly shape the adults we become. Let us talk about something that happened during the world's adolescence.
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The Past is a Prison

Approaching his seventeenth birthday the boy known as Rubaiyat Karim committed an act that made him infamous. July 19, 2009. On that day the man known as Rubaiyat Karim was conceived.
1 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Nothing Matters in Sherlock

The Sherlock Holmes stories are simple enough in subject matter: a detective, his friend, and the cases they solve and an arch-nemesis hovering in the background.
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Unconventional Desires

The pentagram flashed an impossible colour thirteen times just as the scented candles at the edges of the star were snuffed out. The wizard sweated nervously. The vial of blood at the centre exploded with a strange purple light.
18 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Age of Empires 2: Evergreen, not Forgotten

The fourth expansion pack for Age of Empires 2, Rise of the Rajas, was released on December 19, 2016 as downloadable content.
4 January 2017, 18:00 PM

2016 was THE worst. Now what?

The end of the world is a pretty commonplace incident.
28 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Commandos and Desperados in Feudal Japan

In Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Mimimi Productions has married the gameplay of Commandos with intrigues and conflicts of Edo Japan.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

It's Time to Make Peace with Spiders

First of all, let's just all have the bravery to be honest about this: spiders are super-scary and would probably have never existed in an ideal universe.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Racists do stupid things that ruin the world

Racism is far from dead, but we have come a long way. Plenty still living remember when racial discrimination wasn't an illicit practice but explicit state policy...
22 June 2016, 18:00 PM

The Challenge of Realistic Melee Combat in Games

The games industry is becoming increasingly diverse and the niches the so-called AAA developers ignore are being filled by outsiders
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM

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