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• Gulzar saab, / Yusra Khan | Humra Quraishi

  30 July 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - 28 July 2021
  Come August and its Gulzar saab’s birthday. Born on 18 August 1934 in the Undivided Punjab, he’s going strong. That grace, that attractive-poetic-romantic look to him hasn’t ebbed. He looks a shayar and also converses like a shayar with that gentle strain to his voice.
  There’s something or everything so very different about Gulzar saab, that’s difficult to describe or even pinpoint. Its not just the way he dresses so very elegantly in the white cotton (…)

• Danish Siddiqui’s Question? | Ramanujam Meganathan

  30 July 2021

  You shot for peace live.
  They shot the peace dead.
  Your lens lensed through suffering human.
  Their prudence stands for counting dead human.
  Yet another casualty,
  Yet another peace catalyst quieted.
  Yet another message to enemies.
  Who are the enemies?
  Your lens that clicked blew off many a violent mind.
  It sparkled for solace.
  Oh! Afghans, how long you endure?
  How many you endure?
  The Communist, jehadist, islamist
  The UN, the USA, the NATO
  The religion, the neighbours, the (…)

• A Cup Full of Rebellion | Jeevesh Gupta

  30 July 2021

  A pinch of breeze and few drops of chlorophyll
  A whirlpool of emotion riding on a mint leaf
  Simmering bark of an aging oak smoking anger in disgust
  The oozing droplets of blood from its trunk splash parched lands
  Slowly percolating through the midribs in the ground
  Mother Nature is widowed by those who still vow to keep her elated and green
  Her so called husbands plundered her first
  Young and old, who were fed by her and basked in her glory, shot bullets through her very (…)

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  A Painted Portrait of Nazar Mohammad Khasha, the Afghan comedian from Kandahar Executed by the Taliban in July 2021

  30 July 2021

  Nazar Mohammad Khasha, an Afghan comedian in Kandahar, was dragged from his home by Taliban terrorists and then killed in cold blood. A man who brought smiles to many was killed brutally for being who he was. The world watches as Taliban continue their atrocities against Afghans

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  The Banquet of Nations - a mural painted by Karl Bodek interned at Les Milles camp for ’Enemy Aliens’, in France, at beginning of the Second world war

  30 July 2021

  Internment camp at Les Milles in France
  After World War II broke out, the French government ordered that Germans and Austrians living in France be interned. Many of them had fled from Nazi Germany because of racist or political persecution to find refuge in their neighbouring country, where they were now seen as “enemy aliens”.
  The Camp Les Milles opened in September 1939, in a former tile factory near the village of Les Milles, part of the commune of Aix-en-Provence.
  Most of the (…)

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  Video: Chris Evert vs Billie Jean King | US Open 1971 Semifinal

  30 July 2021

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  16-year-old Chris Evert vs 27-year-old Billie Jean King | US Open 1971 Semifinal by United States Tennis Association (USTA) https://youtu.be/tzwkgeUudn4

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  Pegasus Spyware Scandal: Shashi Tharoor Interview by Delano D’Souza on France24.com July 29, 2021

  30 July 2021
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  Documentary: Arpilleras - story of women affected by dams of Brazil | Womens Collective of MOB

  30 July 2021

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  Arpilleras: atingidas por barragens bordando a resistência by MAB Brasil https://youtu.be/PEu-AATb3TU
  by: Colectivo de Mulheres do MAB - (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, or MAB — pronounced “mah-bee”) [Brazil’s Movement of People Affected by Dams]

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  Spy vs Spy - Cold War Cartoons for MAD by Prohías

  30 July 2021

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  MAD - Spy vs Spy - Season 1 Complete by FireStar https://youtu.be/onR7PD3Grc0

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  Trío La Rosa de Cuba - Medley (1957)

  30 July 2021

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  Trío La Rosa Medley: Maria Peralta / Las Mujeres Sin Conciencia / Pegadita de los Hombres /... by Trio La Rosa - Topic https://youtu.be/FctxVjsBYGo
  Trío La Rosa de Cuba Medley: Maria Peralta / Las Mujeres Sin Conciencia / Pegadita de los Hombres (1957)