Dolphins: Kaikoura, New Zealand
“We swivel our heads around until a diamond cuts through the waves. A diamond made up of dusky dolphins with silver stripes on their chins.” Nicolette Loizou swims with dolphins in New Zealand.
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Unconditional Surrender: April 30, 1975
“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.” Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.
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On Monsters
“This made me reassess everything that I thought I had known about him, and to an extent what I thought I had known about myself.” Deonte Osayande looks at what happens when a childhood friend becomes a murderer.
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Randy Coal-cutter: Part II
“New constructions in the city — often featureless, rectilinear beehives built inside gated compounds — are frequently christened as a ‘court’, ‘manor’ or an ‘enclave’.” Part II of Chitralekha Basu’s look at how English is used in modern Calcutta.
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Randy Coal-cutter: Part I
“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
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Transitory Condition
“Characters…in motion, changing, and searching for identity. Any attempt at traditional syntax construction is lost, and subsequently altered, as the words themselves become reflections of the character’s mindset.” Noah Klein defines the transitory condition of Michael Ondaatje’s characters.
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Ruins and Shelters
“All of us lived in fear of the eminent bombing from America for a number of years, but exploring bomb shelters still became our favourite pastime.” Nellie Barg remembers her childhood in post-WWII Kiev.
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Phatty Girl
“In Trinidad, women want bigger breasts, bigger butts and stomachs that ripple with the slightest movement.” LaTroya Lovell comes to terms with her desire to be fat.
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Do English-language-fluent Immigrants Face a Glass Ceiling? : Part II of II
“In Asia alone, there live 4.4 billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people. But when top-notch recruitment firms in the West claim they found a new multimillion pay-packet CEO after a “global†search, just how global was it?” Vinay Kolhatkar continues his investigation into the prejudice against foreigners in the Western working world.
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Do English-language-fluent Immigrants Face a Glass Ceiling? : Part I of II
“…the glass-ceiling bias impeding immigrants is manifested in a bias against those speaking with non-native accents, the strongest signal of immigrant status — detected quickly and apparent almost continuously.” Vinay Kolhatkar investigates the glass ceiling for immigrants in English-speaking countries.
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