Theatre/er
Consider the fact that actors have to learn not only the script, but everything connected to the scenes. Now, consider the fact that people like to watch movies more than they like to see plays.
The Satanic Verses – Beyond the Rushdie Affair
Almost instantly after its publishing, the title of Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel The Satanic Verses has become known to the worldwide audience as one of the most controversial books of the 20th century. Both the novel and its author have become practically inseparable from the notion of fatwa – a legal pronouncement in Islam that Rushdie was sentenced to by the Iranian religious and political leader Ayatollah Homeini.
Advice from Maya Angelou
"The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you—black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight."
The time is now
Being aware that our academic education won't provide us with proper skills relevant for a professional career, we all discuss our opportunities for personal development. However, only a small number of people is brave enough to make a huge step and break out of the comfort zone. Our colleague, Nenad Marković, found a perfect opportunity in AIESEC's Global internship program and decided to follow his dream. You can read now about his about his life-changing experience.
Would you dare to do the same? If not now, when?
The meaning of Liff – dictionary of spare words
Dear reader, have you ever found yourself in a situation but couldn’t find a proper word for it? Douglas Adams, great writer, deep thinker and genius mind found a perfect solution to this live issue. Having observed that there is a large number of “spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places”, he set out to find a new use for them.
“We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realise what an arbitrarily selective work the Oxford English Dictionary is. It simply doesn’t recognise huge wodges of human experience,” wrote Adams. “Like, for instance, standing in the kitchen wondering what you went in there for. Everybody does it, but because there isn’t – or wasn’t – a word for it, everyone thinks it’s something that only they do and that they are therefore more stupid than other people. It is reassuring to realise that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is ‘woking’.”
कर्म
We help, not because we are morally obliged to, we help because we can. That is how Karma is weaved as well.
The analysis of memory in “A Pale View of Hills”
Because,
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing;
often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in
which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to
certain of the recollections I have gathered here.