Hard News - Reflections

Cross-border smiles

Hardnews — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:32:01 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

Nothing works better than a big smile and a tight hug when it comes to making friends.

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FEBRUARY 2012

Rossellini’s Orient arrives at Viennalle

Hardnews — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:39:11 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

Among hundreds of feature films, documentaries and short films from around the world, I spied India, Matri Bhumi, a jewel of a film in four episodes.

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NOVEMBER 2011

Caucasian, and not so Caucasian

Hardnews — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:24:30 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

It is difficult to believe some of the changes taking place around me here in the heart of Europe. In all my 30 years of living in Vienna I have seen many a face wear a frown.

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OCTOBER 2011

Money can’t buy me love

Hardnews — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:50:43 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

Recent events likethe tragic gunning down of innocent people inOsloand the riots in London must surely forceEuropeto self-reflect. This is perhaps long over due.

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SEPTEMBER 2011

When the Belfast Child sings again…

Hardnews — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:49:47 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

The thought that there seems no solution to terrorist attacks is sad.

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AUGUST 2011

Women Without Borders

Hardnews — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:28:10 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

It is no secret that poverty is on the rise, population is exploding and literacy figures are sinking worldwide.

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JULY 2011

Naked Celebrity Realism

Hardnews — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:55:27 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

After Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), I wondered how much worse the life of the 62-year-old would be today if he had refused to al

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JUNE 2011

Student, Male, Minister, 24, with a beautiful blonde hairdo

Hardnews — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:31:06 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

In a major shake-up within Austria's Conservative Party, Sebastian Kurz, a 24-year-old law student with a beautiful blond hairdo, has been appointed junior minister in the coalitio

Flowers of love and the Goan spring

Hardnews — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:57:53 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

The weather has not exactly cleared, but the two-week Festival of India that opened in Vienna recently is a colourful reminder that spring can't really be far behind.

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APRIL 2011

A murder spectacle, a film in jail

Hardnews — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:44:06 +0000

Mehru Jaffer

More than one thousand and one hundred years before great filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to prison in Iran, Persian poet Mansoor Hallaj was accused of blasphemy and publicly executed.

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MARCH 2011