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Giving aid

by Timeri N Murari

[ january 05 ]

We have millions of poor who were not victims of the tsunami, and they will remain mired in their poverty.

A very modern museum

by Martin Fisher and Martin Mullin

[ january 05 ]

The newly refurbished and expanded Museum of Modern Art is, as its curator of architecture and design said, "so minimal as to be baroque". It's also a revelation.

Rising Nepal

by Aroon Thaewchatturat

[ january 05 ]

"From the burning grounds near the sacrificial temple, the smell of burning human protein fills the entire valley. Death and disco in one place..."

Luang Prabang diary

by Dave Tomory

[ october 04 ]

"The Australian has lashed himself into his seatbelt like a sailor to a mast. There are no airline magazines, no safety information sheets, just sickbags."

Welcome to the end of the world

by Tom Vater

[ october 04 ]

"Km 11 is rough, as twisted, creepy and dysfunctional a place in the world as any."

Lies, dam lies and statistics

by Robert Jensen

[ october 04 ]

"Dams are not the temples of India. They are her burial grounds." An interview with Angana Chatterji on the devastation being visited upon the people of the Narmada valley

Kissinger vs. Kerry

by Jonathan Penton

[ september 04 ]

What do you want: good grammar or good taste?

Options

by Stephen Davies

[ september 04 ]

"'Why English? To work where? To work in China? Morocco? Latvia? Peru? Where? Where do you want to go work? The United States of America?' Mario nods uncomfortably. 'Options,' says Carlos, pleased."

Iran... or Persia?

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

[ august 04 ]

"Inside the 'fat' Iranian, a 'thin' dervish often struggles for self-expression. Dervishism allows a way to cock a snook at all the dreary conformities, class suffocation, overly formal manners and philistine consensus aesthetics."

The re-opening of the Nile Basin

by Michael Griffin

[ march 04 ]

"I had gone to Rumbek to return a book I stole from the library a quarter of a century before." After decades of war, Southern Sudan had changed.