Word: uprootedness
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Last week, Harvard Right to Life (HRL), an anti-choice student group, set up an approved display on the lawn in front of Science Center featuring 440 miniature American flags to represent the 4,400 abortions performed each day in the United States. On Tuesday, nameless opponents defaced the display...
To be sure, in 1914 Kandinsky’s adherence to theosophy lent his painting an idealism which we may now find untenable. The wildly expressionistic paintings in the current exhibition—images, in his words, of the “thundering collision of different worlds”?...
Muslims and Hindus were inheriting a divided subcontinent from Britain, made up of Pakistan and India. Already the legalistic partition had led to deadly rioting. But one important division had yet to be announced, that of Punjab, a rich province with a volatile mix of Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus. A...
“Villages 700 to 800 years old will be uprooted,” Sulak says. “Most people don’t even know what’s going on, and the government does not care. This is just sad.”
Many new arrivals?some aid workers use the term internally displaced persons, a designation often given to refugees uprooted by war?become disoriented and depressed. Some take to cheap vodka; brawls are common. But Bayarsakhan says, "I can't afford to drink." Children here are malnourished and sometimes abandoned, says...