by Peter Speetjens | 17/06/2017 | Art & Culture
Intoxicated with the iconography of modern day America, Nadia Lee portrays sultry housewives with 50s hairdos in neon-lit motels theaters to create a staged Lynch-like world, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Nadia talks about her background, inspirations and...
by Peter Speetjens | 10/10/2016 | India
With every terrorist attack committed by an Islamist militant in the West, they pop up like mushrooms after rain. The TV pundits and so-called experts making sweeping statements about the true nature of Islam being violent and intolerant. The ignorance of such remarks...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/09/2016 | India
A special court in the city of Ahmedabad, the capital of western India’s Gujarat state, in June condemned 11 people to life for their role in deadly inter-religious riots in 2002. This and the fact that 13 others were also given to up to 10 years in jail may seem good...
by Peter Speetjens | 10/06/2016 | Middle East
“Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the greatest political thinkers of all time” – so I was told as a young law student at Erasmus University some two decades ago. It is a statement that will not surprise many people in the West. Born in Paris in 1805, the French...
by Peter Speetjens | 08/04/2016 | India
‘God is als een minderjarige,’ zegt advocaat Ananda Padmanabham vanachter zijn bureau in Trivandrum. Padmanabham is een goedlachse en welbespraakte veertiger. Hij draagt een wit overhemd met korte mouwen. Aan de muur hangt een portret van zijn in 2011 overleden oom en...
