Angela Markel Salute: For Rejecting The Dublin Protocol

One Facebook user wrote: "We will tell our children that Syrian migrants fled their country to come to Europe when Mecca and Muslim lands were closer to them"

Pussies & Pirandello: Charlie Hebdo Vs 6 PEN-Prostitutes

 Salman Rushdie12:07 AM - 27 Apr 2015            

.@JohnTheLeftist @NickCohen4 ''The award will be given. PEN is holding firm. Just 6 pussies. Six Authors in Search of a bit of Character.''

 

 January, 2015 while visiting Dhaka, my 11 year old son Mattis-Joti mailed From France:

''Hey Choy, how are you doing? Here in France it's quite sad : the 5 best caricaturist of France are dead. Me and Paty are going to a rally this afternoon...In college we did a minute of silence. College is going quite fine. Mattis''

Scottish Independence Vs J.K. Rowling

Braveheart, The Freedom Speech

 

It's been more than 600 years since Blind Harry wrote The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, more popularly known to the modern film goers as the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace! Tie hugging, perfect suit wearing Scottish Independence leader Alex Salmond might as well be going baldy and on the side of being called 'beefy' compared to the flaming manes and athletic built of Mel Gibson playing Wallace, but in spirit he has no doubt ignited the spirit what Blind Harry would have preferred to see if he could get back his eye sight!

1971 Genocide Versus The Economist Goliath

Ravi Shankar, Concert For Bangladesh, Madison Square, 1971

*Justice Nizamul Haq was the presiding judge of the International Crime Tribunal(ICT) that was trying the war crime perpetrators of 1971 until recently in Bangladesh!Obtaining some hacked mails and Skype conversation of Justice Nizamul with a Brussels based international law expert,  British based magazine 'The Economist' shouted foul that he was unfair to the defendants!To preserve both his personal dignity  and seemingly not to get ICT into a long drawn debate Justice Nizamul resigned like the fallen CIA chief General Petraus!

*Ironically The Economist  affair was more of 'views' instead of  'news' and a persuasion to impose that 'view'!While imposing these views The Economist also overlooked the rights of the victims and their relatives to seek justice!While highlighting which media has said what about the ICT, this blog post would look into the contradictory mindset and double standard of the British press in general!

''Awed By A Knock On The Door''

''Isle Of The Dead''

It was one of those misty, windy, moonlit November night in the sea side small French town!We were invited to a piano recital by our 9 year old son Mattis-Joti's piano teacher's husband, the Armenian old is gold Gabrell at the Music Conservatory Mattis attends!

Gabrell was playing Rachmaninoff!Though Gabrell didn't play 'Isle Of  The Dead', on the way back walking,  my head was still filled with it!It must had to do with Gabrells playing intensely well one after another joyful Rachmaninoff coupled with the effect of last few months one after another outrageous news coming out of my home country Bangladesh: the burning of Buddhist temple; the burning of slums and more than 100 garments workers burnt to death in Dhaka!I was thinking what made Rachmaninoff to compose his 'Isle Of The Dead' symphonic poem!Did he at all go through the pain as the painter of the same title went through?

Victims Of Map: Palestinian Poems

Victims of a Map Published in 1984, is a bilingual (Arabic / English) anthology presenting three undeniably influential Arabic-language poets: Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, Samih Al Qasim and Syrian Adonis.  At 165 pages  this is a slim volume, Editor and translator Abdullah al-Udhari offers an introduction to the book as well as a brief introduction to each poet.

If Only Monty Python Was Making, ''Life Of Muhammad''

Everybody knows that French cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo has published caricature of  Prophet Muhammad this week and fearing backlash  French government has closed embassies around the world!What the heck that got to do with Monty Python?

Monty Python's ''Life of Brian'', a 1979 British comedy film tells the story of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man.Brian grows frantic when he finds that some people have started to follow him around, with even the slightest unusual occurrence being hailed as a "miracle". One day after slipping away from the mob, Brian runs into Judith, and they spend the night together. In the morning, Brian opens the curtains to discover an enormous crowd of people outside his mother's house, all proclaiming him to be the Messiah. Brian's mother protests: "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy".