“Tessellate my dreams with hope and optimism” thus I beseeched the voice that called me out “Bless me with the courage and confidence…
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Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week – Will Stronge & Kyle Lewis
Time well spent is liberating. Time as a phenomenon, when expended according to one’s own volition is delightful. Time allowed to lapse at…
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Rule of The Robots: How Artificial Intelligence will transform everything – Martin Ford
Reading more like a hyper extension of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” than an introduction to an explosion of technology, James Barrat’s thought…
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Bleak, brooding and breathtaking, David Diop’s 2021 International Booker Prize Winning work is certainly not for the faint hearted. Set in the trenches…
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Erbaqyt Otarbai, a middle aged Kazakh man who called Tacheng, a town six hours away from Urumchi, was unloading his truck in an…
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With requisite precautions and a bit more We headed into the vaccination centre with hopes galore Courteous staff symbolising behaviour exemplary Discharging their…
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The gait was a bit laboured but the tranquility adorning the face was unmissable. With the sturdy hand of his companion steadying him,…
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The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future – Geoffrey Cain
In the year 1956, bestselling American science fiction author, Philip K. Dick penned a disturbing dystopia titled “The Minority Report.” The plot has…
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Kafka was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir – Anatole Broyard
A simulacrum of and for the times in which it was written, I first came across Anatole Broyard’s “Kafka was the Rage” when…
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Beliefs – a tether that yokes one to notions of reality and absurdity An invisible rope which binds man yet tricks him into…