Culture and Media

Ilhan Sami Çomak, the Kurdish poet who has been in a Turkish prison for the last 28 years, was awarded the Metin Altıok Poetry Prize and the Norwegian Freedom of Expression Award (shared with Ahmet Altan, writer/journalist from Turkey). The…

TRADITIONAL CULTURE       Korea has a long tradition of culinary arts and unique cuisine, with some popular names such as kimchi, a traditional side dish of salted and fermented vegetables, napa cabbage and radish, as well as favorite…

ENDANGERED SPECIES ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice,…

There is a growing psychosis sweeping the U.S. around the Russian bombardment of Ukraine, and it is being triggered by the legacy news media. The steady stream of biased, often erroneous or incomplete information spewing from the establishment press is…

The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America and RT International, has been disappeared from YouTube. Gone is the interview with Nathaniel Philbrick on his book about George Washington. Gone is the…

The virtual capital city of the northeastern part of India, Guwahati today nurtures nearly one thousand working journalists who are associated with various newspapers, news channels, radio outlets, digital platforms, etc and without a doubt, they need a space for…

‘The Boy Named If’ is that latest offering and the 32nd Studio Album by Elvis Costello, renowned Singer Songwriter from UK who spent his Childhood growing up in London to later on as a teenager move to probably what he…

FILM A filmmaker and visual artist from Sorsogon province, Philippines bagged First Place in a film competition organized by Philippine Information Agency Region 5. Robert Marticio, who is a member of the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and the Concerned Artists of…

Book Review: Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages) By Roger D. Harris Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became…

How many wars have been fought in the world from March 1971 to December – from the time of Bangladesh’s bloody liberation war to March 2022, and how many millions of innocent people have had to leave their homeland and…