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Neal Stephenson - Taking bin Laden’s Side
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Crikey. If you watch Star Wars prequels, you realise that actually R2D2 and Chewbacca are the real movers and shakers, and in a pretty dark way too. - How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time
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"because my worldview is so different from that of Orwell and his Cold War-era readers, I have to “think” my way into their political struggles in a way that someone even twenty years ago probably did not" - Muslim Victims of 9/11
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Category Archives: Asia
Anti-Bribes
The Afghani policeman paying ‘anti-bribes’ reminds me of the Indian Zero Rupee bank-note. Continue reading
Posted in India, Law and Order
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Another Demo for Aung San Suu Kyi
Photos of the demo at the Burmese Embassy Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Human Rights, London
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64 words for Aung San Suu Kyi
I didn’t know that Salman Rushdie and Aung San Suu Kyi shared a birthday: On this day, my birthday and yours, I always remember your long ordeal and silently applaud your endurance. This year, silence is impossible. It is not … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Human Rights, Liberal Conspiracy
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Lobby the UN for Aung San Suu Kyi
The Burma Campaign have a handy form that allows you to quickly lobby the UN Secretary General, asking him to send an envoy. Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Human Rights
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Mightier than the Sword
Today I start a new job, as Campaigns Manager at English PEN, promoting literature and human rights worldwide. A dream job for a blogger, I reckon. As before, consider this full disclosure to the bloggers’ register of interests, and sufficient … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Diary, Human Rights, Literature
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The Himalayan Challenge
Browsing a hard-drive from a long decommissioned family computer, I found this report of a Himalayan trek that my Dad wrote in 1999. He did the walk in aid of the Frimley MacMillan Nurse Appeal. Continue reading
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Coverage 2.0
In a mirror of the Election Twitter, which captured the global exhilaration of the Obama victory, this Mumbai twitter conveys something of the confusion caused by these attacks. Continue reading
Posted in Globalisation, India, Internet Philosophy, Media, Terrorism, Visual
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Sowing Division, Reaping Unity
Back in 2006, after the Malegon bombings, I was struck by the defiant attitude of the locals who refused to divide themselves along religious lines, as the terrorists obviously intended. Continue reading
India’s Olympic Shame
Here’s an interesting alternative medal table (h/t KiwiClaire). It ranks the countries not by how many Beijing Olympic medals they have won, but by their ratio of medals to population, and to GDP. Britain does not do quite as well … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Sport
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Four billion!?
Surely these media claims that four billion people watched the ceremony is stinking hyperbole Continue reading
Posted in Art and Cultures, China, Sport
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