I come from Nathuwakhan, a small village with simple living where my journey started in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, a Himalayan state in India. I come from a farming family. Farmers struggle with limited resources, especially water for the fields and access to good fertilizer. There are no healthcare and education facilities here, so people often …
I Watched Planes from My Village – One Day I finally flew in One Read More »
by Jasmine Koria My name is Jasmine, which in Anglicized Mandarin is mo li hua. I learned this on a recent visit to China, a few years after I finished processing the fact that my great, great (great-great) grandfather came to Samoa from Northern China to work a job he never left. There are days …
by Similoluwa Ifedayo The ordinary man is not your mentor, but you need him. There is comfort in the ordinary. It feels safe, familiar, and agreed upon. It is the voice that says, this is how things have always been, this is how things should be and means it kindly. But there are moments when …
by Monica Islam I had not boarded a plane and travelled out of Bangladesh for a decade now. Therefore, when the opportunity to travel to China on a short study tour was offered to me by the Confucius Institute at North South University, I immediately accepted it. This travel jinx was finally lifted off me …
by Jasmine Koria Twenty-five-year-old Vensel Margraff has always been a high achiever. In his school years, he was Head Boy and dux (Valedictorian, highest-scoring senior student) of Robert Louis Stevenson Secondary school, and then also dux of the National University of Samoa’s foundation year program in 2017. As an undergraduate student in 2020, he won …
by Monica Islam Austria recently banned the Hijab in schools in an effort to separate religion from the public sphere, but is it really worth it? In India too, a lawmaker pulled down the face veil of a Muslim female doctor. It is true that Hijab started off as an oppressive tool, invented by misogynistic …
Hijab, Choice or Control? Why Policing What Women Wear Helps No One Read More »
by Similoluwa Ifedayo Hey, builder. Come closer, we need to talk. I think I missed the group chat. The one where you were told that love and ambition cannot coexist. I’m glad I missed it though. Because if someone tried to convince me that building a startup, a brand, a career, a podcast, or a …
What’s Up With Young People Building Great Stuff and Ghosting the People They Love? Read More »
by Riya Mehta Climate change is speeding up faster than anyone expected, and with it come stronger hurricanes, bigger floods, more wildfires, and disasters that shake communities across the world. For decades, disaster response was led by engineers, climate scientists, and emergency managers who used highly technical, one-dimensional approaches that framed disasters as isolated physical …
Why Anthropologists Matter in the Fight Against Climate-Driven Disasters Read More »
by Ewura Larbi Until a few months ago, Black History to me was mainly the story of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his victory of independence for Ghana. I had always known of Black History Month celebrated in February in the USA and October in the UK, but barely acknowledged it as a remembrance for only …
Black History Month, Worn with Pride: A Commonwealth Correspondent in Europe Read More »
by Jasmine Koria Jonathan Pa’u and I have spent most of our lives living down the street from each other. Despite this and defying basic probability as Samoa has a meager population of just over 200,000 people (most of whom know each other and/or are somehow related), Jonathan and I met for the first time …
A Love Letter to Legacy: A Conversation with Fulbright Alumni Letoa Jonathan Pa’u’ Read More »
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