The West, FIFA and Us: We're all being hypocritical about the World Cup
Pro-migrant, anticolonial discourse has been weaponised to support Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup
1y ago
Mermaids aren’t real, and neither is race
Our current conceptualisation of race derives heavily from the last couple centuries of European imperialism.
2y ago
Declan Walsh's 'The Nine Lives of Pakistan': A journalist explains the country that banished him
In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by “angels”.
3y ago
An anarchist retelling of Tintin
The globetrotting hero-reporter, he of the blonde quiff and the plus four trousers, had many an adventure throughout a 46-year-long run under
3y ago
Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI
Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
4y ago
The Dead Can’t Dance
The death’s head is panther-stalking her through the party. Bodies washed in neon pink ebb and flow, sinking and rising from the shadows as light thrums.
5y ago
The trap of Re-Orientalism
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, a man with a silly name who only had a career because West met East and immediately mugged it, running off with wallet, shoes and pants. Through Kipling’s pen, the British
5y ago
June 2, 2016
A REALLY WEIRD STORY ABOUT FLOWERS
I'd be the first person to admit that I have no clue about flowers. At most I can identify a sunflower or a rose – but only if it's red.
June 2, 2016
The Preacher pilot reveals little - Great cast, though.
AMC's Preacher is the adaptation of a comic book that many would consider unfilmable. Watching the pilot that came out on May 22, someone unfamiliar with the story may not see why that would be the case.
May 26, 2016
YouTube for Sword Geeks
Are you tired of all the history experts that crop up on your news feed every season of Game of Thrones? Disagree with that “Tower of Joy fight choreography sucks!!!” thread on TV Fanatics?
May 12, 2016
My Private Country
In November of 1871, the Welsh journalist Henry Morton Stanley successfully found the long missing, legendary medical missionary David Livingstone.
March 31, 2016
WHEN SPORTS CLUBS - TRIED REPLACING AN EMPEROR
Long before it became Istanbul, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
March 24, 2016
GAMES INSPIRED BY HISTORY
I love history and most what I know, I learned from video games like Age of Empires. And that's funny because history will be twisted in service of better gameplay. What a game can do, however, is use its systems to teach you enough to get you interested in learning more. At times conveying the spirit of an age is a more effective deed than getting the details exactly right, and there is no more immersive medium than the video game.Now, local history is tragically unrepresented in games. We have two Bangladeshi-made shooter titles that deal with our Liberation War; last year's Heroes of 71 and 2004's Arunodoyer Agnishikha. From way out of left comes Paradox Interactive with Crusader Kings 2, which has been expanded to include Bengali characters. It is much that these...
March 10, 2016
Give Peace a Chance (or Else)
Sengoku Jidai was a period in Japan's history when every samurai and their granddaddy wanted to be the shogun, chief of warriors and the real authority in the country.
March 3, 2016
XCOM - 2: WELCOME BACK, COMMANDER
XCOM 2 is the very definition of a flawed masterpiece.
February 18, 2016
The Climb to Tiger's Nest
Tiger's Nest, more properly known as Taktsang Palphug Monastery or Paro Taktsang, is the most well-known of the many pit-stops...
February 11, 2016
The Hottest Trend in Medieval Japan
“Hereafter, the guns will be the most important arms. Therefore decrease the number of spears per unit, and have your most capable men carry guns.”
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