The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday April 23rd, 2022 – World Book Day
World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing, and copyright. The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and continues to be recognized on that day. A related event in the United Kingdom and Ireland is observed in March. On the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, UNESCO along with the advisory committee from the major sectors of the book industry, select the World Book Capital for one year. Each designated World Book Capital City carries out a program of activities to celebrate and promote books and reading.
Time for a Third Force Opposition Coalition by Lim Teck Ghee and Murray Hunter
Warisan president Shafie Apdal recently said his party was willing to work with any political coalition that secures the people’s mandate. The leaders of MUDA, and Gerak Independent have made similar statements. The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) which has the longest lived and developed program of policy alternatives relating to the nation’s socio-economic problems has always cooperated with parties taking on the ruling coalition.
With an electorally shaky PKR, which has performed poorly across the last three state elections, it makes sense for Warisan, MUDA, Gerak Independent, and PSM to combine forces in some sort of electoral cooperation, or even coalition for the upcoming general election.
This new and potentially game changing Third Force grouping has a number of strengths which can appeal to many voters.
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Awaken #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“What was he thinking
when he stood across from her.
the children were sleeping upstairs,
he was their father, she was his wife.
she asked him to leave,
he wanted to stay.”
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Mundy and the Khyber Rifles by Rene Wadlow
The current tensions and armed violence on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier and the Khyber Pass which links the two countries brings to mind the theosophical novel King of the Khyber Rifles (1916) written by Talbot Mundy, who birth anniversary we note on 23 April.
The novel was written by Talbot Mundy, in part, to express the workings of karma, that ancient law of individual responsibility which gives humans their dignity. “We act and react, do and leave undone, think and refuse to think, stand firm or are seduced while karma- incorruptible and inescapable –inscribes our spiritual progress on the rolls of destiny. The Law adjusts all balances and measures, the exact effort of every thought and deed, detecting each hidden motive.”
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Ephemera #051 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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