Author Archives: Rashid Faridi

About Rashid Faridi

I am Rashid Aziz Faridi ,Writer, Teacher and a Voracious Reader.

The myth of progress

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Echoes in the Mist By Sharon St Joan It’s not that there’s no such thing as progress. Indeed there is. If I want to travel around the world, I’ll take a plane. I won’t set out walking, or take a … Continue reading →

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Are You Up for the Jugraphia Slate Challenge?

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on Jugraphia Slate:
I was in a meeting the other day when someone mentioned a web program called GeoGuessr (http://geoguessr.com/). In essence, the program takes the user to a random spot in the world on Google Earth at…

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1951 : All Of The World’s Glaciers Melting – Some Have Disappeared

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Real Climate Science Don’t scoff when you hear an old timer say: “Summers are hot- ter than they used to be.” This remark could once have been classed with “Stairs are steeper than they used to be,” and “Young people … Continue reading →

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AAP Halts BJP Advance in Delhi

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006:
Over a year ago, I had written on Kafila about the (Ir)resistible rise of Arvind Kejriwal, a phenomenon thoroughly misread from the beginning to this moment, by free radicals and Left devotees…