Paved Paradise – Growing Up Goan
Red dust clouds rise. Feet stomp and shuffle to a 180 bpm track. Speakers pound an enormous sound while fluorescent coconut trees sway in…
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Cut and Consequence – Female Circumcision
Female circumcision is a term used to describe the partial or complete removal of a woman’s clitoris and/or labia minora. After being declared illegal…
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Worship the Wild – Nature’s Mythos
Can you imagine treating a tree not like something that has been placed in nature for you to take, but like something that has…
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The Great Programmer Within
Modern society continues the age-old tradition of searching for answers. What is considered and not considered truth advances and recedes like the waves on…
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The Friction Between Fact and Fiction
2012 saw the release of Dutch author Maan Leo’s successful debut novel Ik ben Maan (I Am Maan), in which she exposes a semi-autobiographical…
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The Art of Being Alone
As our lives are spread thinner and thinner, are we losing a sense of what truly matters? Is the lack of real physical interaction…
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Lines of Love
The love letter is a romantic symbol that has almost become extinct in the midst of our modern, fast-paced way of life. The ways…
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SEARCHING SELF
Religion tends to gives an individual a set of prescriptions about how he should live his life. But according to Mark Seelig, this is…
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LIVING SEX DOLL
This ex-porn star has made it her mission to reveal the dramatic harm porn executes in society. She hopes that exposing the perversion, cruelty…
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PLURALITY OF GOD
Polytheistic religions worship many different Gods. A God/Deity in a Polytheistic system (or Pantheon) is a supernatural being that has otherworldly power and controls…
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HELPING GHANA HELPING ME
We talked to Ines, a student of ecology, who volunteered in Ghana last summer. She taught children of two villages, Azani and Butre, about…
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AQUATIC AFFAIR – IN LOVE WITH A DOLPHIN
Back in the 1970’s, Malcolm Brenner, found a love like no other. Their story is like that of Romeo and Juliet; a story of…
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HOME SWEET HOME
One of the notions constantly present among our lives is Home. Throughout our bodies, nations and actual houses, we try to find a perfect…
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TEAM JUSTICE – REAL LIFE SUPERHEROES
Superheroes. Generally they’re the fictional product of a creative imagination, but as of late these costume donning vigilantes have been patrolling the streets, intent…
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THE COUNTRY IS BURNING ALIVE – TURKEY 2013
Burning eyes under a gas mask. Empty tear gas cans on the ground. Burning trees with no fire brigades. Thousands and thousands of people…
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BE THE CHANGE
Igor Jaksic is an architect whose ambition goes beyond designing his surroundings. After beating cancer, he made the decision to change his lifestyle completely….
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FREE IN YOUR FREEDOM?
Every minute we decided to remain either locked up or to choose to break some of our chains. An “unusual” young adult reflects on…
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KILL YOUR CHILDREN – VHEMT
A concerned citizen of the world is committed and ready to take some radical actions to change his life aiming to improve the world,…
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THE MUTUALITY OF BEING
We interviewed a twin. She exposes the homogenizing effects of the individualistic western culture, through her experience. Borrowing a quote from the anthropologist Marshall…
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DEBRIS OF THE SOUL
Maybe in all of our adventures in life, we leave behind bits of soul debris, intertwining ourselves and our souls with all that we…
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LEGAL AGE OF LOVE
Dave fell in love for the first time when he was 23. Choirs played and angels sang and all that jazz. The only problem…
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