Nicknamed the “human iPod,” pianist Derek Paravicini is wowing audiences with his extraordinary repertoire of thousands of songs he can play entirely by memory. A Musical Gift Derek Paravicini has a rare musical gift called absolute pitch. If someone plays a chord with ten notes in it, he can decipher each one individually, when most […]
In the US, Gaza is a different war
The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel’s war on Gaza. On the left was a Palestinian mother who had lost five children. On the right was a nearly equally sized picture of an Israeli woman […]
Man and Media: The Chronology
In order to understand how the present lifestyle of man came to be, we must move back to Ancient times. A chronological outlook will aid us in understanding the relativity and difference between the present man’s inventions today, mini DVs, and the ancient man’s inventions of myths and the basic tools. All of these are […]
On an Existentialist
Legalization of a Suicide Ripon Parbez When his grief passed the mark of tolerance, he decided to say ‘Adieu’ to life without any anxiety. In fact there assembled some anger in his mind. Life has given a lot gift of grief to him but there should be an end. And […]
Happy independence
Let us take flight from our fears and dry those tears. As we enter the 62nd year of our collective national existence, we are about to achieve a new milestone. If 2007 was the year of people’s awakening, people’s realisation that the only and only way we could live peacefully and ensure justice, progress and […]
Symbol of Nepal’s National Unity: Diversity
For almost 240 years, political forces of Nepal had been reinforcing feudal monarchy as the greatest symbol of national unity. But feudal monarchy had been throttling democracy for the luxuries of a few elites, who never minded starving millions. When millions of Nepalis rose up against the hereditary Rana regime in 1950, the Rana rulers […]
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