[ad_1] My earliest reading memoryWhen I was a child, my father, a young and poor novelist, kept our unfurnished house packed with books. A deluge spilled out from the shelves, covering the floor in disorderly towers like a secondhand bookstore where the organising had been put off for ever. ToContinue Reading
[ad_1] The cracks on the walls started to appear two days earlier. But despite the warning signs, Moushumi Begum still came to work on 24 April 2013. Moments later, she was buried under heavy rubble. “It all happened so quickly. I vividly remember every detail about that day, even thoughContinue Reading
[ad_1] An independent Scotland has not been hindered by Nicola Sturgeon’s departure; it could well be advanced by it. Her eight years as first minister have been remarkable, but failed to bring statehood closer to reality. The question is whether her intransigence postponed it. Sturgeon made a strategic error afterContinue Reading
[ad_1] I spent my early adulthood in South Africa during the apartheid era. In 1974, the government passed a law stipulating that all lessons for black children had to be in Afrikaans, which most could not speak, and which was considered the language of the oppressor. By 1976, Black schoolchildrenContinue Reading
[ad_1] Mumbai: Director-producer Aditya Chopra, who is known to be a very private person and seldom comes out in the media, has shared his opinion on his brother Uday Chopra not becoming a star. He said that privilege can only open first doors for actors in the film industry. AfterContinue Reading
[ad_1] Apple AirTags San Francisco: Apple’s AirTag has helped a passenger to track his lost wallet, even after American Airlines could not find it. Taking to the micro-blogging platform Twitter, the passenger shared the incident on Sunday. He mentioned that after realising that he lost his wallet, he contacted AmericanContinue Reading