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Author archives: luckylucy

Why expats call this utopia

Imagine a major metropolis where traffic flows quickly on green highways; where streets are sparkling clean and restoration is nearly as vigilant as sanitation; where four main ethnicities (Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian) co-exist in tropical tolerance with a large community of foreigners who live and raise kids without fear of crime or the slightest impolite slight. Parks, museums, art spaces and architectural icons are world class. There’s a reason […]

The lady with the funny bone

“When I started off there weren’t too many women who did what I was doing” “The female comedians that I knew of — in television, films and drama — were mostly happy playing second fiddle to male comedians. “They did not have a voice of their own… “In most popular shows, there were men who dressed up like women which was both funny and depressing — I thought we (women) […]

Everest's poop problem: Pile up of human waste causing pollution on world's highest peak

  Kathmandu: Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world’s highest peak, the chief of Nepal’s mountaineering association said Tuesday. The more than 700 climbers and guides who spend nearly two months on Everest’s slopes each climbing season leave large amounts of feces and urine, and the issue has not been addressed, Ang Tshering […]

York University teaching assistants strike one day after U of T

  Forty thousand York University students are not in class this morning after the university suspended classes following the decision by the school’s non-contract faculty to strike. It is the first strike at York in seven years, but already students on social media were raising the spectre of the last labour disruption by teaching assistants and non-tenure track faculty. That strike, in 2008, lasted three months and ended with provincial […]

You Throw Away The Eggshells? After Reading This, You Will Never Do That Again!

  If you are anything like I used to be you probably throw the shell away after you crack the egg, but there are many reasons why you should not do this! Eggshells have many different uses you would be silly to throw them away! Fertilizer Eggshells are a great way to add calcium to your compost, they have a very high surface area to volume ratio, and they tend […]

Prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy killed

  Prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy began one of his final articles by writing that January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in France was “a tragic atrocity committed by soldiers of the so-called religion of peace.” He recalled the case of another secular blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death outside his home in Bangladesh in February 2013 by assailants with machetes. “The virus of faith was the weapon that […]

Women are leaving the tech industry in droves

a Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors, than anyone she knew. In 2011, after 15 years, she left before achieving a management position. Garann Means became a programmer for similar reasons. After 13 years, she quit too, citing a hostile […]

Shameful: Devadasi practice flourishing in Telangana and A

New Delhi: Despite the repeated denials by the successive governments, Devadasi system continues to thrive in rural areas of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.   According to a report submitted by one man commission headed by Justice Raghunath Rao, the two states together have about 80,000 Devadasi women. The figures are much higher than the number of the AP social welfare commission, which put the figure at 24, 273.   The […]

How to be a 'bad girl' in India

  If you want to be a ‘bad girl’ in India, we may have found the perfect guide for you. Pout, have breasts, eat too much. And go to Goa. At least, that’s the advice of a satirical poster that’s being widely shared on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. The image suggests India remains very much a man’s world, and has triggered a slew of comments online. Many took the message […]