Agriculture, food security and poverty alleviation By Yuba Nath Lamsal The global food production is sufficient to feed the world population. But hunger exists and tens of thousands of people die of hunger and malnutrition annually in the world. A part of the world dumps the surplus food into the ocean while other parts […]
Dangers of Compliance
Many years ago I started work in the publications department of an old-established City institution. I was a lowly editorial assistant, and I fetched coffee and accompanied photographers and did a lot of filing, in the basement of a beautiful building, but in an environment where I never saw natural light, and everything was either […]
What I would like to tell the Peace Corps.
Why do I want to join the peace corps? I have a number of reasons. As I sit on my inflatable mattress (which I have been sleeping on for almost three months) and look at my perpetual messy room I feel that sleeping on a grass mat in the middle of Zambia can’t that different. […]
The Esthetics of Holler
Dark, small, confined place. One spectator to enter the performance space. Female voice saying the text using different rhythms and degrees of volume. Words and sentences can be repeated at random. Different ways of screaming at random. Intermittent video projected images (of anything, preferably home movies) on various fluid surfaces, at least […]