Aparna Ray
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AuthorHailing from Kolkata, India, I am an ethnographer who loves to travel across Myriad Spaces. Passionate about cultures, people and issues related to ICT4D, governance, community, gender and social inclusion, I am ever willing to engage in a good conversation over a steaming cup of tea.
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30 December 2011
Nepal
Blogdai writes that Nepal should stop blaming foreigners for each and every woe that comes its way, since national unity cannot be based on xenophobia.
Pakistan
Blogger Karachi Walla shares some images from a visit to the Manghopir Shrine - one of the oldest Sufi shrines located in the suburbs of Gadap town, to the North-West of Karachi.
29 December 2011
Bangladesh
On 28th December, a hot air balloon show was held in Dhaka. In this context, photojournalist Monirul Alam discussed the history of hot air balloons.
Pakistan
Rabia Tirmizey at The Paradigm House points out that the meaning of joy and happiness has changed tremendously for kids in Pakistan and even the bar for happiness has risen. Simple pleasures such as those enjoyed by children of the '70s to early '90s no longer suffice.
India
Shashi Shekhar at Offstumped looks back on the year 2011 and finds that it has been anything but predictable.
Pakistan
Masood Ashraf Raja at The Pakistan Forum feels that unless Pakistan takes a critical look at its political history and restructures it's national narrative, it will continue to remain a nation that is perpetually in crisis.
Next time we will be there again :)