Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
Following excerpts adapted from the authors’ latest book, The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, published by Oxford University Press The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held in October 2022
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“Being Hindu in Bangladesh – An Untold Story,” a recent publication of Harper Collins, is a well-researched narrative on the plight of Hindus. Written by leading Indian journalist Deep Halder and Prof.
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A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter… ~ T.S.
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Arturo Bejar’s return to Facebook’s Menlo Park campus in 2019 felt like coming home. The campus was bigger than when he’d left in 2015—Facebook’s staff doubled in size every year and a
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‘Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.’ ~ Virginia Woolf ‘Don’t take no for
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s recent book, Concrete Utopia: Looking Back Into The Future Of Human Rights, published by OR books. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity
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Following excerpts adopted from the author’s latest book, The Urge: Our History of Addiction, published by Penguin. I am lying in bed when I hear the commotion. I peer through the doorway
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It is entirely fitting that the final chapter of this book should present a list of indictments of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (p.335) that, like the closing
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Syed Badrul Ahsanis a celebrated journalist and columnist in the domain of English journalism in Bangladesh. He is currently the Consulting Editor of Dhaka Tribune, a leading national English Daily of Bangladesh.
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, Elon Musk published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m
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Culture consists of traditions, values, customs, folklore, rituals, and artifacts that help to make meaning of the physical world and its transmitted primarily through language and everyday interactions. These cultural factors frequently
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To steady my memories of the origins of Critical Inquiry in Chicago in the 1970s I consulted a magisterial book, John W. Boyer’s The University of Chicago: A History (2015). It reminded
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The following excerpts are adapted from the authors’ recent book, The Age of Prediction, published by MIT Press Humanity has entered a new era. We are now living in a world that
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On the 21st of April 2019, Sri Lanka witnessed its very first macabre experience from Islamic extremist terrorism through a series of attacks known as “Easter Day attacks”, which targeted Christian churches
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Following chronology is adapted from the author’s most recent book, published by Penguin. Year 2019 3 January—Western province governor Azath Salley reportedly met with pertinent government officials, presumably after realizing the danger
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