| Who is afraid of Disneyfication? A response to Sonja Hegasy
In spring 2003, Sonja Hegasy argued in openDemocracy that Arab intellectuals evasion of the challenge of globalisation was central to the Arab worlds culture of victimhood. Here, Mona Abaza writing before the death of Edward Said, a key reference-point in the argument responds that the seizure of Enlightenment values by an American-led imperial project undermines the search for an equal relationship between east and west. .
Festival of Lights-Diwali-The Hindu festival celebrated. Diwali ...
There is a large Indian community in the UK which add to the country's cultural diversity. I wish the Duke of Edinburgh's Award all success in contributing towards better understanding among communities and cultures," Singh said in the message read out by India's acting High Commissioner to the UK, Asoke Mukerji.Among the sizeable number of distinguished invitees who attended the event were Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, Asian of the Year for 2007, Lord Khalid Hameed, NRI industrialist Sir Gulam Noon, Chief of Vitabiotics Kartar Lalvani, and leading NRI hotelier Joginder Sangar.G P Hinduja, President of the Hinduja Group, introduced the Guests to The Earl of Wessex.The 466-year-old St James's Palace, built by Henry VIII, remained one of the principal Royal residences for over 300 years. PTI Sinapore Diwali: One of the festivals that unite the people irrespective of their religion and nationality is Diwali in Singapore.
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Once upon such a time my high school football team experienced such a meld of hope and dream. The Terriers returned many starters from a team that had done well. We were recognized early on as the team to beat, and the first several games only encouraged such aspirations. That we lost our starting QB to injury seemed barely to slow us down, although we did lose a game. Still the dream was there. Our second QB was as good as the first, but another player was the heart and soul of that team. Pat Landry was a tight-end and linebacker who also played on the kick off team. He was a ferocious tackler whose bone rattling hits on opponents fired up the defense and the crowd. He was a monster with an irrepressible spirit and an infectious will to win. At mid-season we sat atop the district standings at 4-1, tied with the surprising Eau Gallie Commodores, whom we were to visit next.
Romantic novelists out of love over plagiarism
Cruel words and harsh accusations have darkened the world of romantic fiction after a popular American novelist was accused of plagiarism. Cassie Edwards is the world's most successful author of American Indian historical romance novels, with more than 10 million copies of her 99 books in print. However, the author of Wild Abandon, Savage Longings and Rapturous Rendezvous, is having her literary output subjected to the unwelcome attentions of readers who are uninterested in the exploits of amorous Cheyenne braves. .
Spirits, sacred stones - and how to dowse your aura
In the bright docks of Ilfracombe, the sturdy MS Oldenburg rocked in the harbour as beefy men packed rucksacks and provisions into large plastic containers and dragged them aboard. After collecting my ticket in the harbour master's office, I felt a tap on my shoulder. The striking appearance of my guide, Lawrence Main, should not perhaps have come as a surprise, considering the nature of his interests, but he was monolithically tall and tanned with sea-blue eyes glinting from the depths of a wild grey mane of dreadlocks and the white horses of his long beard. He looked like Neptune or an Indian sadhu, albeit one in tiny shorts, a red fleece, sandals and bum bag. As chairman of the mysterious Society of Ley Hunters, he had invited The Observer along on one of their annual holidays, to celebrate May Day on the island of Lundy off the north coast of Devon, in the hope this coverage would attract new members who share their passion for dowsing and stone circles.
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