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Tale of a Heart Shaped like a Stone – A Bouquet of Poems from Kosovo

Alketa Gashi Fazliu, an eminent poet, writer and journalist from Kosovo, a country in Balkan region of Europe, shares her three poems Alketa Gashi Fazliu was born in Prizren, Kosovo in 1986. She has earned her Bachelor in Political Science and Master of Science in International Relations and Diplomacy. Currently a PhD student pursuing

Robots save 39,000 working hours for Ministry of Finance ​

The Ministry of Finance has just completed phase two of embedding robotic process automation (RPA) into many of its internal processes. The Ministry now uses bots, software applications that carry out automated tasks for 1.8 million transactions with greater than 98% accuracy, saving 39,000 hours of human labour. Bots are also increasingly

Hug a Tree, Spot a Leopard in Rajasthan

In Rajasthan, Raj discovers a Bishnoi ethos that informs a spiritual tree-hugging practice which pre-dates the modern climate change movement. A post-covid trip to Rajasthan Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd inspired my wife (Mangla) and my first trip back to India since Covid shut down the world. We wanted to be in

HUMOUR IN MODERN SINDHI LITERATURE

Humour, as a distinctive form of creative art, is relatively a modern phenomenon, and Sindhi literature is not barren of elements of good humour I have no big claim to make about a great tradition of humour in Sindhi literature. Perhaps it may be the case with other Indian literature as well, since humour, as a distinctive form of creative

Visiting the Rabari in India’s Kutch: nomads on an ancient land

India’s nomadic pastoralists migrate for eight months a year, covering huge distances The animals are returning on a biblical scale, flooding into this green expanse, like grains of sand rushing into an hourglass. Water buffalo, camel caravans, herds of cows and goats swarm over the horizon towards me on these vast, stark plains