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Poetry

Self Love

Eye liner on fleekFigure so slender and sleekStarving, in the name of dietingApart from threading and waxing Wearing painful high heelsNo matter how she feelsReal eyelashes falling off with mascaraSpending hours and hours in the spa Straight hair, makeup fairTo…

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Opinions

Fundamentalism kills!

The past few days, my WhatsApp group has been filled with news about COVID-19. People are apparently choosing to ignore public announcements warning them to stay at home by choosing to attend a mass gathering instead. One of these was…

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Opinions

COVID-19: Humanity on display

Silver linings to a virus-shaped cloud Yes, COVID-19 may be causing us fear, uncertainty, isolation, sickness and even fatalities, but I have also been absolutely overwhelmed by the simultaneous expressions of humanity, faith, care, and concern. I have been overwhelmed…

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Reviews

Girl with a Gun

Review Girl with a Gun begins with a startling vignette of Iranian life in the 1960s. A wedding in the Kurdistan region unfolds over the traditional three days of festivities: hands are painted with henna, women visit the public baths,…

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Poetry

Fair and Lovely

Every morning I unscrew the pink and white tube my grandmother stuffed inside my suitcase as I left her home in Delhi. Her words still ringing inside my ears, “don’t forget to use your Fair & Lovely! A girl of…

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Opinions

Hope, humanity and COVID-19

As I ponder the Covid-19 pandemic, I can only humbly defer to intellectuals who addressed epidemics through fiction. I think of The Plague by Albert Camus (1947), where the town of Oran in Algeria is slowly overtaken by an epidemic….

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Interviews

Najmun Nahar: All around the world

Known as the ‘Flag Girl’, Najmun Nahar is in the process of visiting every country in the world, taking the flag of her native Bangladesh with her. She’s won numerous awards, including one from feminist magazine Ananya in Bangladesh and…

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Inspirations

Safiye Sultan c. 1550-1619

Wife of Sultan Murad III and mother of Mehmed III, Safiye Sultan was a powerful and ambitious consort and zalide sultan (queen mother) within the Ottoman court, who lived through the reigns of seven sultans. Named Safiye for her blonde…

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Inspirations

Nur Jahan 1577-1645

If the rosebud is opened by the breeze in the garden The key to our heart’s lock is the beloved’s smile The heart of one held captive by beauty and coquetry Knows neither roses, nor colour, nor face, nor tresses…

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Opinions

And the award goes to …

The César Awards, known as the French Oscars, have been given out every year for half a century. This year, Roman Polanski’s movie J’Accuse was nominated in 12 categories and gained awards in three. This has created a massive controversy…

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Opinions

Sharia and “non-marriage” in the UK

Recently, a British court reversed a judgment made two years ago in which the high court ruled that a couple’s Islamic wedding could be legally dissolved. According to the new ruling, British law does not recognize religious weddings and therefore,…

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