Afua Hirsch, the writer, and Broadcaster, created a national identity crisis in Britain’s failure to come to terms with its colonial past. “The past is past, You can’t rewrite history” former V&A Director Sir Roy Strong said. Hirsch attempted to fill crucial gaps in British recollection of the colonial story, Born in Norway to a…
Zadie’s centrifugal styled collection of 31 essays there is a piece called “Meet Justin Bieber!” the celebrated Canadian Teenage pop idol. The ethics of Bieber’s near-namesake, the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, whose instance that true meetings demand an emotionally deep encounter between “I” and “Thou” rather than the selfish use of human being as another…
Adeline Virginia Woolf, an English writer born in 22, Hyde Park Gate in Kensington, London on 25th January 1882, committed suicide in Lewes on 28th March 1941, was one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century who pioneered using a stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Virginia Woolf, the youngest daughter of successful…
Jordan Peterson a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, a YouTube intellectual with millions of online following audience, with titles such as “Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege”. His online forum Quora inspired him to write his new book 12 Rules of Life, “ What are the most valuable…
Twenty years after former president Bill Clinton‘s ramping up material prosperity economy, bons mots, the world’s developed economies are wealthier than ever, in real terms more than 70 per cent larger than they were in 1992. But Bill Clinton’s verdict went wrong, as the golden age of popular social and economic analysis explains why an…
Michael Wolff’s controversial expose of the White House and the furore surrounding it has already ended Trump’s alliance with Steve Bannon, who became his biggest source. Bannon quite his job as head of Breitbart News having lost the confidence of his financial backers. Wolff does not respect the meaning of “off the record” and reconstructed…
Orly Lobel, a professor of law at the University of San Diego, traces back to Barbie, the blonde bombshell’s roots to Bild Lilli, a sexually suggestive German toy made for adults. In 1959 Mattel, founded by Ruth and Elliot Handler, Launched a successor for American girls and named after their daughter Barbara. Soon Barbie captured…
Snigdha Poonam a Delhi-based journalist, explores the hopes and fears of rising and the new generation of young Indians are shaping the world’s largest democracy, where 40 per cent of the population is under age of 35 and a million people turn 18 every month. As this population grows up, it will definitely reshape India…
Rebecca Abrams in The Jewish Journey tells the history of Jewish people from the ancient Mesopotamia through time and space to modern European times through 22 objects from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. From many of the little known treasures all 22 remarkable stories have been generated, spanning 4000 years of Jewish history covering 14…
This is a follow-up sequel to the international bestseller of motherhood-and- career, “I Don’t Know How She Does it,” for the modern woman anywhere. In its opening page we see Kate Reddy, a city fund manager and mother of two juggling with supermarket mince pies in her kitchen attempting to distress the pies with a…