The story then took a strange racist twist, with rumours suddenly popping up on social media about how the “cheating” Chinese had tried to sell a counterfeit phone to the Malay man. The Police, by the way, havereportedlydismissed claims about the counterfeit phone. A riot broke out at Lo...
towns and villages. While we often turn a blind eye to this grim actuality,Ruchira Guptahas made it her life’s mission to rescue and rehabilitate the vulnerable women survivors; and she does it through her Nonprofit organisation,Apne Aap. The story too is...
“Jackfruits, they were never here before, not in this part of the neighborhood, and I was wee small, hanging on to Dada’s, my big brother, shoulders, when Baba, my father, bought it off of the man from Kerala for a day’s meal. You would think these are all stories, but I ...
In beautiful Kerala, your state, and writers from different parts of the country had to read out excerpts from their work, first in their mother tongue, then in English translation, so that we hear each other’s language and then understand each other. Well, the Bihari read out in Bihari ...
Balochistan: Behind an Iron Curtain, by Vikram Sood, NewKerala, Aug 3, 2010, reposted at intellibriefs Weakening Pakistani Hold In Balochistan, BalochUnity, Aug 2, 2010 Dara Shikoh: still persecuted, by Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur, DailyTimes, Aug 1, 2010: "History’s false and biased version...
Which comes first for you, story or location? The two are so tangled together that I couldn’t say. When I begin to imagine a new story, I always see it in a particular place and begin to people it with characters that act in the ways they do because of the locations that have hel...
ve been. That conversation was acceptable for that group. I realized that I don’t understand my neighbor’s job in tech, and he doesn’t understand mine, but we can be great friends on a million other subjects. You can make a bridge of the human story. The more stories we share, ...
Synopsis:Scott decides that instead of writing natural history narratives about animal characters, he will write his own story: of how he went from growing up on a Berkshire farm in the UK, to training as a zoologist, to working as wildlife artist and safari guide in the Maasai Mara Nationa...
In fact, think he was the first to come up with the idea of a Live CD and run with it while Canonical/Ubuntu took another 2 years to do it. I think both the CD and the interview by distrowatch was shared by LFY in those early days. Of course, later the story changes after he ...
Thanks so much, Jo, for sharing your story with us. * * * Readers, any further questions for the extraordinary Jo Parfitt on her thoughts about place, displacement, and the connection between the communities you’ve lived in and creativity? Any authors or other international creatives you’d...