By Shaheen Buneri Mohabat Khan, the governor of Peshawar under Mughal Emperors Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb might have not thought that the elegant mosque that he built in the heart of Peshawar city in 1670 AD would be so brazenly neglected by the succeeding rulers of this region that it would lose its […]
Supersymmetry
Instead of wasting billions of dollars building a hadron collider to find the elusive Higgins boson, physicists needed only to travel to the Village of Dobbs Ferry to find irrefutable evidence of supersymmetry. As predicted by political scientists, the controversy over the referendum to move the election from November to March has ended up […]
Commuvolution, An International Process
Standard English is one of the main languages in global communication and is also one of the main British exports in our brave new millennium. The dominance of the English language in international business and politics is worth a projected ₤5,455 billion, some 750 million people speak English as a second language for business and […]
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND More years ago than I admit to, while on a cross country skiing adventure, I came to the shore of a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Before me was an unbroken snow-field, untouched, unmarked, bathed in the soft red-gold glow cast by the last rays of […]
The Dobbs Ferry (Pharmacy) Party Strikes Back !
Dobbs Ferry, January 28, 2007 – Smarting from its surprise defeat in the November election to the Democratic ticket, the Dobbs Ferry (Pharmacy) Party struck back with the only weapon left in their quiver – a referendum to move the election date back to March. By way of background, the Dobbs Ferry Party had dominated […]
The Public Art of San Francisco
So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]