Prominent painter Sliman Mansour says that peace is possible when each one of us is considered a human being and ‘has the same rights’. That — in short — is the meaning of sumud.” And in the case of Mansour’s art, that fight is characterised by existence rather than violence. If I paint just a beautiful landscape or people working …
The cast of the horror film "They/Them," premiering July 24 at Outfest Los Angeles. Josh Stringer/Blumhouse Pride Month’s parades and parties may be over, but Outfest Los Angeles is keeping queer artistic excellence front and center this summer with an impressive array of narrative features, documentaries and shorts. “One of the things we wanted to do is really show the …
On the day of Amit Shah’s controversial ‘speak Hindi instead of English’ remark, AR Rahman shared a picture of Thamizhanangu on Twitter, along with a line written by modern Tamil poet, Bharathidasan, which reads, “Beloved Tamil is the root of our existence.” AR Rahman’s image of Thamizhanangu has also gone viral on social media. World renowned music composer AR Rahman …
Blaise Pascal’s Pensées is a book like many others from the Western canon: many of us are aware of its existence, roughly in the same way as we are aware of the existence of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and yet almost none of us have read the Pensées — though we might have a sense that it is the kind …
