Defiant and Courageous...
Students are defying the Big Brothers in Beijing... in rain or shine...
The students in Hong Kong and the people supporting them... stand on guard for their democratic rights and demand full democracy...
The lighting is transmitting energy from the skies above and empowering the students and Hong Kong residents to challenge the Big brother and the "communist" hierarchy ....
What is ironic is that... the residents of Hong Kong appreciate and yearn for democratic rights... But the West and the U.S. are silent about it... The leaders of the West have said nothing in support of the students and democratic rights of the Hong Kong citizens...
A bus plastered with supporting messages...
But...
Big Brothers of the world are supportive to each other and silent about the democratic movement in Hong Kong....
The police...defending Big Brother...and not the people...
But we say...
POWER TO THE PEOPLE...
Hong Kongers mark China's National Day in the square that they have renamed...Democracy Square...
Get inspired by the flicker of the masses... get inspired by the power of the students and the people...
In every city and in every school and university... establish a democracy square... and come out and discuss everything that is bothering the people... Do not let the big Brothers muzzle your voice and your resolve...
In every school come together and defend the rights of the students and the people of the Global Village...
Get inspired by the masses of Hong Kong...
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....And Elif Safak... a courageous voice... a role model for us all... defender of democratic rights in Turkey... an inspiring intellectual...and writer...
She is a voice for the downtrodden and for democratic rights...
She has written many but few of her famous novels are....
The Gaze
The Bastard of Istanbul
The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Honour
Make time and read this novel where the courageous writer exposes the Turkish Big Brothers and writes about the massacres of the Armenians and Christian in Turkey...
Read and get inspired by the voice of Elif Shafak...
In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazancı family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazancı sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres. Full of vigorous, unforgettable female characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is a bold, powerful tale that will confirm Shafak as a rising star of international fiction.
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And read this item....
Did you HEAR IT...?
If you’re tired of granny not getting the punchline, take heart. Perceptions of what’s funny change with age.
A recent study has found that adults 64 to 84 tend to dislike ....
- Aggressive humor — laughing at the expense of others ....self-deprecating humor.
Apparently... retirees don’t like The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm.... Despite the fact that both of provoke howls of young laughter....
I guess it takes sixty four years to educate the toddlers to behave like humans...
But never give up and try again... may be you will be lucky sooner...
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