A 1ª Favela
Só gratidão para Cosme Felippsen, organizador do Rolé dos Favelados, pela aula didática dele, na qual obriga participantes a contemplar o quer dizer “favela”
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Thursday Night News
Check out this week’s reading! 😉
Read MoreGloria Arieira wins 2020 Padma Shri Award
It is with great joy that I inform you that my teacher, Gloria Arieira, has been awarded one of India’s highest civil honours
Read MoreOn Mafia and Meditation
I saw how perfect and uniform all of the red fruit were, but I was more preoccupied trying to remember how many of them I would need for the various recipes I would exact. It might have been that same subliminal suspicion that had made me separate, but not read, an article on the global Italian and Chinese mafias for tomatoes.
Read MoreBook review: Amitav Ghosh’s latest, ‘Gun Island’
The master does it again: but this time, it is not only a story of migration, it is a story of why and how there are migrations.
Read MoreHypocrisy today
There is a profound difference between religions that demand an allegiance to a single story and those that demand nothing
Read MoreBook review: Albert Camus’s “L’Etranger”
The Outsider? The Foreigner? The Stranger? One would expect more consensus regarding the translation of the title work of a Nobel prize-winning author. However, just the title of Albert Camus’s 1942 classic novel, L’Etranger, provokes reflection, as does every page of his terse prose
Read MoreMexican rajma chawal
I mean, I assume you’ve already gotten rid of all the other aluminium in the kitchen, right? Right??
Read MoreHow to kill Dracula
Garlic at your own risk It has enough garlic to kill Dracula. There should be no reason that pasta aglio e olio couldn’t kill a sinusitis, right? That’s why it was part of my battle plan for the day after I arrived back home, a trip that required two excruciating intercontinental flights. Besides, why else […]
Read MoreThe Sabarmati Ashram
by Ricky Toledano When not in jail or walking around to unite India, this is where the Great Soul lived, founding the SATYAGRAHA movement, the unwaivering, unshakable commitment to Truth: that which cannot be defeated; that which is invincible. I held back tears when I saw his desk, the place where Gandhi sat, writing and […]
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