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Director: Gary Ross The Hunger Games  follows Katniss Everdeen, a talented and courageous archer living in District 12, one of the poorest regions of the dystopian nation of Panem. Each year, the Capitol forces children from the districts to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death designed to maintain control and intimidate the population. When Katniss volunteers to take her younger sister’s place, she faces deadly challenges, alliances, and moral dile

Urbanization is considered a sign of advancement. Skyscrapers, transportation networks, and digital lines of communication are often regarded as symbols of progress. But behind these shiny facades, more than 1 billion people in the world live in slums characterized by deprivation, the UN Statistics Division says. From Kibera in Nairobi to Dharavi in Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, slums remind us that rapid urban expansion is not synonymous with better living conditions.

The night was heavy, the kind of darkness where even the stars seemed afraid to shine. In a small riverside village of Sirajganj, Aisha Begum lay awake, her three children curled beside her on a straw mat, their soft breaths rising and falling in fragile rhythm. The Jamuna River, usually a distant hum, had turned into a living beast. It growled in the blackness, its waves thrashing like restless arms, clawing closer with every surge. The air smelled of wet earth and silt, thi

Photo by the Author The Rohingya crisis is not a new tragedy; it is a recurring wound in the conscience of South and Southeast Asia. For generations, the Rohingya people, an ethnic Muslim minority native to Myanmar’s Rakhine State, have lived as a community stripped of belonging. The crisis deepened in August 2017 when a brutal military operation in Rakhine drove over 700,000 Rohingya across the Naf River into Bangladesh. It was not the first exodus; smaller waves had occurr

Part 1 The Status Quo: A Broken System It’s hard to ignore the cracks that are starting to show in the picture of “advancement” that...