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Some distance-off from Gaza, a showdown on NYC’s Times Sq. 0

Some distance-off from Gaza, a showdown on NYC’s Times Sq.

New York City, US – Iris Tatian remembers the first time she splashed red paint on an Israeli flag. Horrified by an Israeli assault on the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, Tatian, in her late sixties, says she stitched a mini American flag on to the Israeli one, flicked red dollops of paint on both so that the…

Kashmir’s non secular team spirit a lesson in worried times 0

Kashmir’s non secular team spirit a lesson in worried times

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Unaware of the tragedy that happened to his family, five-year-old Rohit Koul played in the courtyard while his three elder siblings sat in a dimly lit room of their house in Lavdoora village, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The children have not spoken much after their mother, Baby Koul, died three…

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Finding contemporary bearings in hazardous times, by map of art

Dhaka, Bangladesh – As my eyes adjusted to the dim light, I was transported from the Shilpakala Academy in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to the edge of a vast and dark ocean, whose choppy waters appeared to stretch out into an endless and untraversable horizon. Disoriented, I felt unsure of the ground beneath my feet. Kalapani…