by Nil There is something almost unsettling about the fact that Charles Spencer’s most intimate book about Diana begins, in effect, with a question of possession: who knew her best? His mother,
Following excerpts adapted from the book originally published as Tito in tovariši by Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana, and the English translation by Jože Pirjevec published by the University of Wisconsin System. For three
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Excerpts from the author’s book, published by Georgetown University Press. Translated into English for the first time by Jonathan M. Ross and İdil Karacadağ, this captivating narrative delves into the history of
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The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in
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The following essay is based on the excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book published by the MIT Press Our society is obsessed with intelligence. What it is, what it predicts,
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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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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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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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The saga of the series of novels from “ Gamanaka Mula” to “Gamanaka Aga” authored by veteran Sinhalese author Gunadasa Amarasekara unfolds the socio-political history of Sri Lanka and it certainly takes
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Following excerpts adapted from the authors’ most recent book, Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it, published by Harper Collins Publishers The world is a battlefield
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The common conception that has been viewed as the grand narrative is that Western Science reflects the triumph of mankind over the past five hundred years. The ideas from the heliocentric model
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The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors. Minuscule plastic fibers, fragments, foam, and films are shed from plastic stuff and are perpetually floating into
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Following excerpts adapted from the writer’s recent book, The Four Workarounds, published by Flatiron Books Consulting gave me the opportunity to peek into realities that were very different from mine. Yet whether
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The writings critiquing Western knowledge and the West’s depiction of Asia are being often received a higher admiration from the academia in the Global South as profound attempts that try to question
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Here endeth what I write Who love the Master for his love of us. A little knowing, little have I told Touching the Teacher and the Ways of Peace Forty-five rains thereafter
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, Mad World, War, Movies, Sex published by OR books The madness evoked in the title of this book is not meant just as
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