Posts from Popula

Iwo smells of dust and rusty air, clouding up my mind and drowning my memory. The first thing my mother welcomes me with is water. She is an ardent devotee of the culture that believes water is the most glorious form of courtesy that can be paid to a visitor. But I always find it hard to drink.

Weird colonial propaganda in Australian schools

“I’ve heard about space for a long time now,” the actor William Shatner announced last week on the blog of Blue Origin, the space exploration company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. “I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle.”

Through the rolled-down window of the cab I saw the myriad hues of a September morning in Delhi slowly returning to the look and rhythms of pre-covid times.

The disastrous Body Zone exhibit of 2000

the world is yours

Jafar Panahi made Taxi, his seventeenth film, in 2015, despite the fact that the director has been under a government-imposed 20-year ban from filmmaking for “spreading propaganda against the system.”

Before I left home, my daughter packed the bag with food, snacks, a picture she’d colored in the car and a stuffed blue “Pete the Cat” doll. My wife told her to do this as a way to comfort Dodge, our cat, while she went to the vet.

What the Sixth IPCC Report really says

For how long had I been doing this? A hundred days, or 10,000 years?

The label on the wall describes the painting as a self-portrait, but I see it as a mirror

The glories of art and music in Nigeria before independence, in a new documentary

New South Wales, Australia August 1, 2021: It was early Sunday morning, and I was grateful to be outside of the city, watching the sky melt through pastel oranges, pinks and blues, and fill with light. I was with my boyfriend A and his housemate, on the Point Perpendicular lighthouse grounds.