California Marks Somber 80th Anniversary Of The Japanese-American Internment SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Bay Area residents paused Saturday to remember the day 80 years ago when Japanese-Americans…sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com History to remember — and futures to beware of. I had started working on a — fictional, I stress — work of alternative history based on a then preposterous idea about who and what kind of man our 45th President would be. I wrote 5 episodes till life got in the way and then my whacky what-if came true. I am starting to get back to continuing work on the project.

Someone posted a BBC post from June this year that tended me of a blog post I did in 2014: Mr Modi, Let's End Colonialism in India-and Elsewhere For SF Pride this year, Trikone ( www.trikone.org), the oldest South Asian LGBTQ organization in the world, and ASATA,…blog.ifaqeer.com The BBC post: 377: The British colonial law that left an anti-LGBTQ legacy in Asia For much of the past two centuries, it was illegal to be gay in a vast swathe of the world - thanks to colonial Britain.…bbc.in

Writers, editors and especially my fellow technical writers in India now study and work with Indian English, they hold conferences on the subject. It is an awe-inspiring development. In that topic, here’s a very edifying piece by #ShekharGupta in #ThePrintIndia providing an update on the politics and evolution of English and its role in the home of the largest English-speaking group in the world:

2021: Biden defends Afghanistan withdrawal, says Taliban takeover 'highly unlikely' - The Hill President Biden on Thursday rejected the idea that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is "inevitable," outlining next…apple.news I slapped this together in 2010: …and that doesn’t list Alexander. You can see a more complete suggestion by someone else here. I think it is originally from The Friday Times in Pakistan.

Pakistan as it is today; components: The street sign honoring a visionary literary great who once lived there. A hyper-nationalistic mural. An electric pole repainted in the colors of the street power du jour. Photo credit: iFaqeer; Kamran Khimani