Down the rabbit hole of science and art
The city of Prague, now the capital of the Czech Republic, was once the breeding hotspot of the 20th century’s greatest writers, scientists, scholars, and activists.
2w ago
Witnessing the Turkish century
In the post-9/11 world, no country’s name has been evoked more than Turkey’s (or its newly rebranded name of Türkiye) in public discussions by foreign policy pundits and politicians alike, to demonstrate the harmonious symbiosis of the East and West, Islam and secularism, and tradition and modernity.
4m ago
An enigma amongst nations
In Alex Christofi’s newly published fascinating book—Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean—we get a deep close-range look at one of world civilisation’s interesting hotspots that has long swayed between the cross-currents of the rise and fall of the great monotheisms.
5m ago
A love letter to traveling with friends
A review of ‘Roaming’ (Drawn and Quarterly, 2023) by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
7m ago
A graphic novel on the push and pull of friendships
The stories occur in places deeply etched into many of our memories—from rooftops to buses to benches in the park to the digital world of emails and texts.
2y ago
Lee Lai's 'Stone Fruit': Jokes, rhymes, and the depths of relationships
One of the most searing scenes in Lee Lai’s magnificent graphic novel, Stone Fruit (Fantagraphics, 2021) is when a young child, Nessie,
2y ago
Abdulrazak Gurnahs 'Afterlives': The repercussions of colonialism, unveiled
Abdulrazak Gurnah, this year’s Nobel laureate in literature, seems to come as an admirable choice compared to the Nobel Prize’s controversial recent history.
3y ago
Blood Brothers: exploring Ali and X’s bittersweet friendship
There are very few friendships that have attracted the public eye and provoked reactions of dread and rapacious approval in equanimity. One of those friendships - better described as blood brothers - is that of the charismatic militant civil rights activist, Malcolm X and the greatest boxer of all time, the ballistic and eye-brow raising trash talker, Muhammad Ali.
3y ago
December 10, 2019
Anatomy of a protest
The 16th of December holds special significance for all Bangladeshis, commemorating victory achieved through the struggle of independence and freedom from the clutches of oppression and tyranny.
November 24, 2019
The matter of urologic diseases
Dr Henry Ho is an adjunct Associate Professor at both Duke-NUS Medical School and NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is the Head & Senior Consultant with the Department of Urology.
November 5, 2019
Exploring the discontents of sleep apnea
Dr Toh Song Tar is the Head & Senior Consultant at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery in Singapore General Hospital.
October 15, 2019
Treatment of liver cancer
Professor Pierce Chow is a Senior Consultant and Co-Director (Surgical) of the Comprehensive Liver Cancer Clinic at the National Cancer Centre Singapore; Senior Consultant Surgeon in HPB (Hepatic-Pancreatic-Biliary) and Transplant Surgery at the Singapore General Hospital; Professor and Course Director at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore. He is specialised in the treatment of liver cancer and has carried out extensive research on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
October 8, 2019
The curious case of Marie Antoinette
In one of the intense countercultural debates of the late 1960s, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, two of American’s wittiest and charming intellectuals, raged on their debate about the future of America.
October 1, 2019
Podcasts to listen to
In this day and age, we are all kept busy by a wide array of scheduled and unscheduled tasks, as constant workloads just keep piling on.
September 10, 2019
A night of positive VIBES
VIBES is a nationally and internationally well renowned beauty and fitness clinic, offering services in weight management, beauty, and laser treatments. It is an international chain which thrives on providing the best services in care and devotion, coupled with the use of the latest technology when tending to their clients.
September 3, 2019
Secret Recipe: for a delectable answer to cravings
One can pretty much claim with little to no objection that there are very few restaurants in Dhaka that is as diverse as Secret Recipe, the Malaysian food chain that currently has eight branches throughout the city.
August 20, 2019
Ajo Tapas it is
If there is any place you would like to dine with the perfect amount of scalable quantity of food, saturated with the perfect amount of nutrients, served in the most beguiling ceremonial presentation based on the roots of the dish’s origin, Ajo Tapas is your destination.
August 20, 2019
A visit to South Asia’s little Israel
In Kerala sits the idyllic port city of Kochi, the bustling and ever thriving capital and tourism hub of a region famed for beaches, forests, and backwater lagoons. The landscape of Kochi remains scattered with lagoons, far entrenched greenery and places of
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