Terracotta cups of India losing to plastic cups
In India, tea is one great sip of refreshment at home or when on move. If you visit any Indian city, suburb or even village the second shanty shop by the road is a tea stall that caters to thirsty passers-by serving steaming cups of tea. In a railway journey, on each station where the [...]
National Day against Human Trafficking was celebrated here in Kathmandu
The National Day Against Human Trafficking was celebrated here in Kathmandu with the slogan “Our Common Campaign, Full Stop to Human Trafficking” on Tuesday. In its 5th year the day was celebrated in collaboration of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare and different non-governmental organizations like My Nepal, the Alliance Against Trafficking in [...]
Dancing in detention: crime and punishment in the Philippines
One of the biggest viral hits on the Internet to date stars 1500 inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines, dancing to Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit Thriller. Clad in their identical orange prison uniforms the inmates of this maximum security prison have become unlikely stars of Youtube with their version of [...]
Bangladesh: Coming home for Eid
Eid is the biggest religious festival in the Muslim majority country Bangladesh, and a key part of the celebration is going home to celebrate with family in distant places. During Eid, many inhabitants of the capital Dhaka go back to their hometown to spend the holidays with family. Nasirudding Hozza [bn] explains in a post [...]
Sex and food in Pagan Culture
From ancient pagan (pantheist) cultures that reflected the multidimensional nature of humans living in nature to more modern monotheistic religious cultures that are dogmatically dichotomous relegating people to good or evil categories, food and sex and inexorably linked. In pantheistic or monotheistic culture, food and sex reflect society and human nature that in some religions, [...]
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