Culture and Arts Notebook

MEDIA     Geneva/Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Switzerland-based global media safety body, expressed condolences over the death of prominent Afghan journalist Mohammad Fahim Dashty, who fell prey to clashes that erupted between the Taliban fighters and the national…

POEM   by Lara Arikan I am washing my face and hands in the bathroom. Yes, my face, my hands. Over and over in the light. I’m washing the backs of my hands first, and then the palms, then the…

In 2014, After sixteen years in exile, I was able to return to my native Colombia. My mother was dead already, so the last time I saw her was the day in 1998 when I boarded the plane with the…

MEDIA     Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) commends the concern expressed by the Madras High Court in a recent directive to the Tamil Nadu government to constitute a press council so that the menace of fake news/journalists can be…

POEM     Intention is an arrow Released through time. Moving across the arc of space Traveling through the air.   The arrow seeks its mark It’s trajectory is clear. Point by point it traces a course A path for…

PHILIPPINE CINEMA     by Ma. Agnes Prieto The truth he speaks is profound yet accessible– from depths of the clear blue seas and mystic lakes, the richness of forest green and the magical mystery life of tribal Palawan. Easily…

MEDIA     Geneva/Guwahati, 2 September 2021: The list of journalists dead from Covid-19 is still growing, where more than 1,754 media workers have succumbed to the novel coronavirus in 80 countries during the last 18 months, said the global…

POEM   For all the misfits in the world Who couldn’t settle into this old mold For all the searchers of their own space Who want to find their own grace         Love the reality you build.…

Essay/Endangered Animals       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,…

POEM     by Erlie Lopez I catch the sky pale pink and blue on a late afternoon I walk around the block. Such fitting canopy on a nearly empty street where hopes hang on frozen air. The scrawny man…