By Marcy Winograd* SANTA BARBARA, California | 4 September 2024 (IDN) — In Norman Solomon’s new Afterword in the paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, the author excoriates the White House for arming a genocide with assistance from a negligent press. Solomon tracks […]
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 3 September 2024 (IDN) — After three weeks of illness and holiday I have to tell you about what I’ve been reading. This novel is so very good. It raised my spirits as I lay twice under the surgeon’s knife! Here’s a novel played to music. It’s the story […]
The Cradle of Chinese Buddhism Is A Major Tourist Attraction
A Lotus News Feature by Kalinga Seneviratne LUOYANG, China | 15 August 2024 (IDN | LCN) — Though people around the world may not relate China with Buddhism these days, the reality is that Buddhism has been an integral part of Chinese civilization and culture for 1900 years, and even today with over 200 million […]
The Manor: A Home for Greatest Stories from Africa
By Franck Kuwonu NEW YORK | 8 August 2024 (IDN | Africa Renewal) — The digital age has sparked a wave of innovation and entrepreneurship worldwide, leading to the creation of startups and tech. On the African continent, the rapid spread of digital technology is revolutionizing how young people engage with the world, empowering them […]
Literary-Prize Politics, Cold War, and the Disinformation Game
Decolonizing History and Fiction in a Neo Colony Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* “Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare’s Macbeth COLOMBO | 7 August 2024 (IDN) — Why are there no Booker Prize-winning novels about mundane multicultural families that inter-married for generations, shared religion/s, language/s, histories, and co-existed for centuries, while living in relative […]
If it Bleeds, it Leads
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS | 24 July 2024 (IDN) — Tarzie Vittachi, a renowned Sri Lankan newspaper editor and one-time deputy executive director of the UN children’s agency UNICEF, once recounted the story of an African diplomat who sought his help to get coverage in the US media for his prime minister’s address to […]
A Worm’s Eye View of the World of India and China
By Sanjaya Baru* Shastri Ramachandaran’s “Beyond Binaries: The World of India and China (2008-2022)”, published by Genuine Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd., 1 January 2024, is a reminder for Indian media organisations to look abroad. This review was pubished by The Wire. NEW DELHI | 22 July 2024 (IDN) — Foreign correspondents have always been […]
Wole Soyinka Marks His 90th Armed with Convictions
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 16 July 2024 (IDN) — Poet, playwright, essayist, memoirist, activist and novelist, Nigerian Wole Soyinka is known not only for his many books and book prizes, time spent in jail, and knowledge of African history, but for the wisdom he crafted in a simple phrase: “Wake […]
Book Review: Writing for Media and Monetising It
By Reuben Abati, PhD The writer is a journalist, columnist and ARISE News TV anchor ABUJA | 5 July 2024 (IDN) — I was drawn to this book almost instantly by its title – Writing for Media and Monetising It. Azu Ishiekwene, the author, and I have been colleagues and friends for decades. We have […]
Get to Know the Dark and Twisted World of Japanese Director Takashi Miike
By Andrew Russell* This article was issued by The Conversation and is being republished under Creative Commons licence. PORTSMOUTH, U.K. | 5 July 2024 (IDN) — The Japanese director Takashi Miike’s latest film, Lumberjack the Monster, has been released on Netflix with little to no fanfare). Producing over 100 theatrical releases since his debut in […]