Pedro Cayuqueo is a Mapuche journalist who has worked for a number of
newspapers and outlets. He is a founding director of Azkintuwe
(azkintuwe.org), “the newspaper of Mapuche country”. The country
encompasses part of Argentina and Chile: the newspaper, the important
political issues affecting the Mapuche. From July until October, 38
Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons [...]
Abhimanyu Sarkar who blogs under the pseudonym ‘Wandering Gypsy’, is considered to be one of the greatest young and budding Indian poets of our times & a leading authority in the field of experimental poetry and various styles of poetry. He has written poetry since he was a child and has more than 200 award-winning [...]
Pakistan singer Zafar Ali, who is making his debut as a leading man with Tere Bin Laden, tells Jyothi Venkatesh that whatever he has achieved till now has been only due to talent and nothing else and asserts that he has not ever been subjected to the syndrome of the casting couch here or in [...]
Tariq Hyder is a seasoned blogger from Chennai, India. He blogs under the pseudonym - WebSnacker - an absolute mixed bag on Music, Cinema, Humor, and Satire coupled with slice of life vignettes and incisive commentary on relationships, environment, business and society.
Tariq is a Non-Conformist Entrepreneur doing his own thing for the past 10 years [...]
Interview contributed by Maggie Ronkin, Georgetown University
Q1. Could you share a brief history of the kind of work you did before joining the Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center?
In 1968, I joined the struggle for social change in Pakistan as a campus activist at Punjab University, Lahore. I hailed from an extremely conservative religious family in [...]
Would you please tell us something about you and your site?
1) I am a Home-maker from India. I am passionate about shayris, ghazals and poems (Mostly in Hindi and Gujarati). My site is all about my thoughts on love, life and general worldly affairs that I have penned down in the [...]
Would you please tell us something about you and your site?
I am a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, India. I am passionate about creating images of people, and I started my photoblog Joshi Daniel Photography | Images of People (http://joshidaniel.com/) to showcase them. Posting just people images have always been a challenge.
How [...]
Would you please tell us something about you and your site?
I’m Rahul Anand, from the God’s Own Country at the southern bit of India. I’m pursuing my Engineering degree now, and loving my life. As I chose Computer Science, I spend my time trying interesting stuff in the computer. And sometimes [...]
SAM Mirza is a Barrister at Law and works in a private company. Amongst community and social welfare work, she also writes two blogs, namely : Safire Meanderings and Embrace Life with a Lopsided Smile.
Could you tell us what made you decide to blog, and what was the inspiration behind it?
What made me [...]
With an Ivy League education, a quiet charm, and two acclaimed novels that expertly explore the dissonance of a global world, Mohsin Hamid is the face of a literary flowering in Pakistan. The 38-year-old writer — an alumnus of Princeton and Harvard Law School — chucked a job with consulting firm McKinsey in London to [...]
