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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Cross and concrete: Christianity’s built contradictions

24 December 2025, 07:16 AM
Twelve Churches succeeds in its ambitious goal of revealing Christianity's global complexity through architecture and human stories, embracing the deepest contested contradictions that add to the pageantry of religious faith in the modern world.
24 December 2025, 07:16 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Contested words, painful genealogies

19 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Buried beneath masses of mangled bodies of countless innocents slowly pulled from the shrapnel and debris, their remaining flesh torn in the extraction, lies a reflection of the world’s inhumanity.
19 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / A prayer for Mauritius

1 November 2025, 13:30 PM
Written in deep striking prose, Saramandi lends her authorial voice to the changing dynamics of her life whose future is described as  “a line that turned out to be a loop” similar to the fate of her homeland.
1 November 2025, 13:30 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Betwixt and between: Tales from a Nepali-Indian girlhood

21 May 2025, 18:00 PM
Ravindra's prose is brisk, smooth, and detailed, with numerous stories from traditional Nepali and Hindu folklore chipped in, adding layers as the story unfolds.
21 May 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Stitching fragments of a city lost in time

9 April 2025, 18:00 PM
In the contested notion of creating a ‘nation,’ few ideas provoke as much ire among the everyday citizens of a bordered entity as the concept of a space—one that carries with it the weight of instilling an identity.
9 April 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: GRAPHIC NOVEL / Down the rabbit hole of science and art

13 November 2024, 18:00 PM
The city of Prague, now the capital of the Czech Republic, was once the breeding hotspot of the 20th century’s greatest writers, scientists, scholars, and activists.
13 November 2024, 18:00 PM

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Witnessing the Turkish century

31 July 2024, 18:00 PM
In the post-9/11 world, no country’s name has been evoked more than Turkey’s (or its newly rebranded name of Türkiye) in public discussions by foreign policy pundits and politicians alike, to demonstrate the harmonious symbiosis of the East and West, Islam and secularism, and tradition and modernity.
31 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / An enigma amongst nations

27 June 2024, 12:06 PM
In Alex Christofi’s newly published fascinating book—Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean—we get a deep close-range look at one of world civilisation’s interesting hotspots that has long swayed between the cross-currents of the rise and fall of the great monotheisms.
27 June 2024, 12:06 PM
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Treatment of liver cancer

Professor Pierce Chow is a Senior Consultant and Co-Director (Surgical) of the Comprehensive Liver Cancer Clinic at the National Cancer Centre Singapore; Senior Consultant Surgeon in HPB (Hepatic-Pancreatic-Biliary) and Transplant Surgery at the Singapore General Hospital; Professor and Course Director at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore. He is specialised in the treatment of liver cancer and has carried out extensive research on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
14 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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The curious case of Marie Antoinette

In one of the intense countercultural debates of the late 1960s, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, two of American’s wittiest and charming intellectuals, raged on their debate about the future of America.
7 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Podcasts to listen to

In this day and age, we are all kept busy by a wide array of scheduled and unscheduled tasks, as constant workloads just keep piling on.
30 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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A night of positive VIBES

VIBES is a nationally and internationally well renowned beauty and fitness clinic, offering services in weight management, beauty, and laser treatments. It is an international chain which thrives on providing the best services in care and devotion, coupled with the use of the latest technology when tending to their clients.
9 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Secret Recipe: for a delectable answer to cravings

One can pretty much claim with little to no objection that there are very few restaurants in Dhaka that is as diverse as Secret Recipe, the Malaysian food chain that currently has eight branches throughout the city.
2 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Ajo Tapas it is

If there is any place you would like to dine with the perfect amount of scalable quantity of food, saturated with the perfect amount of nutrients, served in the most beguiling ceremonial presentation based on the roots of the dish’s origin, Ajo Tapas is your destination.
19 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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A visit to South Asia’s little Israel

In Kerala sits the idyllic port city of Kochi, the bustling and ever thriving capital and tourism hub of a region famed for beaches, forests, and backwater lagoons. The landscape of Kochi remains scattered with lagoons, far entrenched greenery and places of
19 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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Chronicles of the Andalusian Blackbird

There are very few periods in medieval history where people of different faiths rubbed shoulders with one another, exchanged their writings,
15 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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What’s in a Jar?

A jar is not just for use as a showpiece or having a plant grow in. To some, it might be the next best thing after a plate. A jar is the
8 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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Have a blast at Habiby’s

The brainchild of eight foodies who have known each other since school, and whose intense love of shawarma led to this venture, is starting to put a strong imprint of Middle Eastern cuisine in Dhaka. The news of the restaurant has spread quickly through the vines of social media.
1 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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Sitting in the right spot

One comfortable couch, preferably imbued with memories of family or friends, is possibly one’s best comfort zone. Don’t take my word. Television’s geekiest nerd, Sheldon Cooper, from Big Bang Theory, has reminded us more than once. There’s nothing better
1 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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Cricket mania goes online

The ICC Cricket World Cup has began, and the entire cricketing world is gearing up for what promises to be a showdown between the finest gentlemen of the game this month, in the land where it all began, England and Wales.
3 June 2019, 18:00 PM
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Cashless dining with Ramadan offers

In this digital era, more and more people are inclined towards using plastic money, moving away from cash. And the notion of cashless dining has been a craze in recent times during Ramadan, in upscale restaurants of hotels, with their lucrative buy-one-get-one-free offers.
5 May 2019, 18:00 PM
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