J.K. Rowling, needless to say, is one of the most popular writers of the day. The Harry Potter Series, authored by her, was a phenomenon. This series had to face politics and debates from world over but it emerged as one of biggest successes in the modern-day literature. The Harry Potter Series reached the zenith […]
Pornography Culture in Bangladesh
For last few years an unpleasant and unusual pornographic culture is reigning over the so called conservative Asian countries. Like the all other countries Bangladesh is not so far behind the others. Don’t know is it a new trend of entertainment or a devastating plague in our social system just to follow the pornography culture […]
Can’t Take a Joke
7 16 08 Can’t Take a Joke By Mary Lyon "Outside of basic intelligence, there is nothing more important to a good political cartoonist than ill will." –Jules Pfeiffer Evidently there’s a lot of surprising ill will with the latest New Yorker magazine cover. That’s gotta be Barack Mohammed Obama there, right? (See! I KNEW […]
Blast in Islamabad kills 10
A powerful blast killed at least nine policemen and a civilian and injured 25 others near the controversial Lal Masjid, minutes after thousands of Islamic hardliners demanded the public hanging of President Pervez Musharraf at a meeting to mark the shrine’s storming by the Pakistani military. The blast were so powerful that, it can be […]
Korea: Chinese Students Fear for Safety after Torch Relay Violence
by John Kennedy Last week someone left a comment on a GVO post, something to the effect of ‘the whole world hates the Chinese people now’ and for a lot of people in (and outside) China, it sure is looking difficult to evenbe Chinese these days. Following the violence in Seoul during the Olympic torch relay there last week, […]
Bahrain: Lebanese Singer Causes Political Storm
– by Ayesha Saldanha Earlier this week the provocative Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbeperformed in Bahrain, but not before Bahrain’s MPs protested and tried to ban her concert. Mahmood gives us a taste of Haifa Wehbe’s music in a vlog: He adds: So what’s so special about this lady then, that would make her so damnably dangerous that they’re all […]
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