That was the first time I had left Bangladesh behind, not quite realising that the feeling of loss I was experiencing was, in fact, homesickness, for a place I wasn’t born to, for a language I have now lost fluency in, and a family I could not grow up with.
Browsing: Perspective
“Finding a job is easy; but finding an ideal job is difficult. If you want to get a job and stay in Australia, you should try harder and perform better than the locals.”
I still feel like a bewildered six-year-old, stretched out into a big kid’s body — and yet I defend the business of small-talk and other banalities.
Anti- and non-Zionist Jewish community groups exist.
Technically speaking cheese isn’t dead, but according to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), it certainly is in danger.
Tumblr exhibits a unique multimedia ecosystem – one can “scrapbook” photos, textposts, songs, gifs, stills, and quotes, in a way that is structurally and aesthetically sound.
Beneath this easy facade, however, lies a history filled with stories of political, cultural, and artistic activism. Let’s take a stroll down Glebe Point Road.
Place and history are intimately intertwined. Without an understanding of place, history becomes a fuzzy abstract.
Regional trains, meanwhile, slice directly through the countryside and the intervening settlements, for which they provide a crucial service. They do this without the comfort-sacrificing drawbacks of either motor cars or plane travel, nor the emissions of either.
Despite the colonial memory embedded within the space, the audience facilitated an environment of camaraderie and support, as they listened to the poets recounting the resilience and steadfastness of the Palestinian people.
