Monika’s Pensieve

I found this short report quite fascinating. It’s a face of the US that I don’t get to see in the movies and taking in Guantanamo prisoners certainly does sound like a good solution to their problems…

A news report on how Nicaraguan women are trying to fight back against domestic abuse.

A short report from Al Jazeera about the fate of religious minorities in Afghanistan.

This is a case I’ve been following for a while and it just gets weirder and weirder.
Akshay Kumar, who is one of Bollywood’s biggest stars at the Indian box office, was invited to walk the catwalk during the Lakhme India Fashion Week. While on the catwalk he approached his wife, Twinkle Khanna (another Bollywood actress [...]

Since I’m regaining my obsession with losing weight (hopefully I’ll explain why in my monthly summary post ;)), I thought it appropriate to post this. I imagine this kind of dieting would work well for many people. I mean if I had to give some of my money to a charity that campaigned for something [...]

I can’t say I’ve been following the Cannes festival very avidly, but I guess the winners are worth a mention on this blog considering how much film related content I put up here… I find it interesting that the best director honour went (apparently rather controversially) to a Filipino director (I saw one of his [...]

Myanmar (Burma) is one of the worst totalitarian regimes in the world. Getting reasonable media coverage from the country is very difficult and so, even though I don’t think this is the best of news reports, I thought I’d link to it. Just seeing footage from Burma is special in itself. I wonder how Al [...]

Russell Means is an actor, who has extensively campaigned for Native American rights throughout his career. The interview is fascinating :)

This is an article about a recent event on Haizhu Bridge. It’s a place that suffers from frequent traffic jams caused by would-be suicide jumpers (they very rarely actually jump). Apparently one of the people in the traffic jam got impatient and pushed the would-be jumper off (onto an emergency air cushion - the jumper [...]

A short report from Al-Jazeera, which talks about how co-operation between the US and Iran would benefit all three parties.