Discussion may have once been a means to an end. What is it today? I can offer, to anyone who has a working definition, that discussion is a relationship between people as people exchange accurate data. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GIR20080511&articleId=8942 Suppose people exchange inaccurate data and suppose someone claims that such an example of exchanging […]
Brazil and Orkut: Made for Each Other?
by Daniel Duende Orkut, Google’s experiment onSocial Networking Services, is extremely popular in Brazil. More than 53% of Orkut users is Brazilian — even more, if you take into account Brazilian’s profiles that don’t show their country information and profiles by Brazilians living abroad — and more than 70% percent of Brazil’s Internet users are actually profiled and […]
The First Lok Adalat was Held by the Supreme Court of India
Lok Adalat is essentially a process by consensus, through which concerned parties will get their grievances settled through parleys and in the process avoiding unnecessary delay, hyper-technicalities on the pretext of procedural law, reducing the cost of litigation to the barest minimum and above all driving the litigant from pillar to post, through red-tapism. In […]
Portraying Woman in Dhakai Cinema
A Glimpse into History: Film exhibition began is Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) at the end of 1890s. Before 1950s was the era of silent film production. After the partition of India the general pace of film blew here, the first film made in East Pakistan was a newsreel about the visit of Mohammad Ali […]
Venezuela: Kusturica’s Visit Becomes Political
– by Laura Vidal Acclaimed film director Emir Kusturica visited Caracas to close out the week of celebrations for the city with a concert by his No Smoking Orchestra. After seven years from his last visit, Kusturica’s fans (myself included) gathered for the free concert that took place at one of the biggest parks in Caracas. In the end, Kusturica’s […]
Brazil: Making a Child Murder Into a Media Show
by Daniel Duende On the night of March 29, 5 year-old Isabella Nardoni was found dying in the front garden of the apartment block where she lived with her father, her stepmother and her two half-siblings, in a middle class neighbourhood in São Paulo. The caretaker found Isabella after she apparently fell out of her […]
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