Pinky Paras is a US-based singer who is also a great fan of Mika Singh. When they met on Mika’s trip to New York, she told him about her wish to remix his all time hit song ‘Sawan main lag gayi Aag’. After getting thumbs up from Mika Singh in this, she traveled to India […]
Critical commentary on the ruling of the Supreme Court on the Knox-Sollecito trial.
Note:Excerpts of the SC ruling appearing in the article were translated from Italian to English by the author. This article is intended to provide a critical analysis of the ruling of the Italian Supreme Court 26455/13 dated March 25, 2013 (announced the next day with publication of the motivation report on June 18, 2013 ) […]
A (semi) literary review of “Waiting to Be Heard” by Amanda Knox.
A (semi) literary review of “Waiting to Be Heard” by Amanda Knox. “That’s what arrest is: it’s a blinding flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality.” Aleksandr Solzenicyn – The Gulag Arcipelago Why “semi”, why not just literary? Because unfortunately this is a book […]
Is A Second Revolution Brewing in Libya?
By Fozia Mohamed On February 15, 2011, two days before the scheduled ‘Day of Anger’, Libyan women relatives of the prisoners of Abu Salim correction center, staged one of their usual protests in Benghazi to demand answers to the disappearance and/or death of their loved ones in this infamous Muammar Gaddafi prison. The notorious prison […]
Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Groups and Citizenship
By Sara Moreira In a country which has experienced constant political instability, how can civil society mobilise itself to prevent further coups d’état and to build a participative democracy based upon its communities? Some possible ways forward were suggested [1] [pt] by a group of 70 young people at a meeting promoted by the Movimento Ação […]
A Transcendental Inconvenience with Photos
The Over-The-River Project (“OTR”) is applying for a Temporary Use Permit from Fremont County, Colorado. OTR involves suspending silver translucent curtains over 5.9 miles of the Arkansas River in the Bighorn Sheep Canyon in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Bighorn Sheep Canyon, Colorado, Paul Sterne, Feb. 2, 2012. OTR Picture on Easel at Fremont […]