Cricket: South Asia’s Colonial Drug
South Asian cricket grounds prove to both create and expel the nationalistic fervor that has come to embody the plagued Indo-Pakistan border.
December, 2012
Niemeyer’s Wrong Dream
Niemeyer’s dreams have not died with him, but live on through his architecture – made to please the eyes of the people, they remain an ode to beauty and risk.
Islam and Chechen Rebellion
As the head of the state of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the thirty-something babyface leader is among the many incompetents who employ religion as a tool to impose authority. Islam has been the main driving religion in Chechnya ever since an independence movement first sprang in the late 18th century that…
The Thai Anguish
Protests have yet again set ablaze the city of Bangkok. Does this new wave of uprisings prove a feeling of unease that plagues the Thai population? On November 24th, 2012 violent demonstrations paralyzed the Thai capital. A much too frequent occurrence, these events oppose the royalist Yellow Shirts to the…
Chechnya: The Minion
It could be a terrible movie title! Chechnya is a small state sandwiched between Dagestan, Georgia, and what is now the state of Ingushetia. It lies on the southwest border of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Mountains. It is a state built on a tradition of resistance against…