Syria’s new rulers, rebels who led the rebellion that overthrew longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December, have struggled to maintain security for the country’s minorities, despite urging national unity and inclusivity.The clashes were prompted overnight after an audio clip was circulated on social media attacking the Prophet Muhammad. The recording was attributed to a Druze leader.Attackers from the… Read More »
Determination is the unwavering resolve to achieve a goal, regardless of the obstacles or setbacks that may arise. For women, determination is a vital force that enables them to persist in the face of adversity, chase their dreams, and build lives of purpose and fulfillment. It’s what fuels progress, shapes success, and empowers women to break boundaries The journey… Read More »
There is only one high school girl who uses the remote Kami-Shirataki Station in Hokkaido, Japan, but the station has been kept open for her till she graduates, goes a Facebook post by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Friday which has gone viral.Earlier, the same story was widely circulated in Japanese social media. But there is a little… Read More »
After a year of traveling, I had planned a last, short trip. I was going to take the train from Montreal to New Orleans. The travels I had been undertaking earlier this year had brought me to places that were meant to form the background of my second novel. This trip, however, was for my dad. He, a… Read More »
In the beginning it was only hundreds of mails, hidden information inside, but in many cases formless and empty. And we said “let there be automation”, and there was automation. And we saw it was good. Automated decisions reduced the flow of not needed mails, we could spend more time on the valuable ones … then something unexpected… Read More »
Dear Amy: For as long as I have known my wife (20 years), she has been reluctant to do the laundry. I politely ask her to do it, and she tells me that she will. However, two days later, dirty clothes are still piling up. To be fair, she follows through about 20 percent of the time. She… Read More »
1. Everything Is Temporary When we are younger we tend to act as though we have forever and don’t appreciate all the things we have. It so often only hits people when it is too late that the time is gone. 2. Life Isn’t Fair This is a universal fact. There will always be people who are having… Read More »
From reluctant initial steps towards finding its own idiom as well as a politics that picks itself up and graduates from abject apologia to informed introspection to bold questioning, the Pakistani novel has taken important strides in desirable directions. Having assessed and reconciled to an appreciable extent their own identity while living on foreign shores, Pakistani writers are… Read More »
I would love to sit down to write, sure, but first I have to get the laundry started. I would love to take a few minutes to plot, but we are out of milk and I don’t know why nobody told me yesterday when I had to go to the store (no, I don’t drink milk so how… Read More »
Early 2015 I was pretty frustrated with my career. Just a year earlier I said goodbye to my entrepreneurial aspirations and took a job at an IT-research firm in London. Normally, that’s a good thing. The pay was good, so were the benefits, and I had great colleagues. But it wasn’t for me — I felt like I… Read More »