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Guftugo ( it means dialogue), an Afghan blogger, writes about Nadia Anjoman, poetess who was murdered by her husband in Herat. Many say jealousy motivated husband to kill this young...
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Venepoetics is impressed by Gorki Águila's Cuban punk band, Porno Para Ricardo and translates an excerpt of an interview (ES) done by his friend, Simón Bravo.
The Devil's Excrement reviews the Caracas Pop Festival, Daniel has more on the Mexico-Venezuela diplomacy tensions, Aleksander Boyd reflects on three years of his excellent aggregation of English-stories on Venezuela, Vcrisis, just as Google News stops indexing the site. Tomas Sancio explains Christmas in Venezuela.
Zannevesht, a blog written by Mrs. Parastoo Dokoohaki, was chosen as the best Iranian blog by the jury for Deutsche Welle weblog awards.
Rezwan links to a post on Adda which talk about the attitude issues that crop up with Bangladeshis. He narrates an incident and attempts to analyse why and how.
Morquendi explores how Mahinda seems to have taken some lessons from Bush in winning the recent election in Sri Lanka.
Lanka Libertarian has some advice for the election-winning Mahinda. Not all of it is lovingly dispensed.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...