Author: Ali Ikram
Ka Kite Ano Campbell Live
Today will be tough. There will be laughter. There will be cake. Campbell Live is famous for cake. We are the only people in the world who lose weight on Christmas holidays.
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Dream big New Zealand
In the end, the end came at the beginning, but for some reason even the end felt like a beginning of a kind.
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Cricket and India, India and cricket
What exactly did the producers of Australia’s Today Show actually think was going to happen
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The Tao of One Direction
“I think therefore I am.” –Rene Descartes “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”- John Keats “You don’t know you’re beautiful. But that’s what makes you beautiful.” – Harry Styles.
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Beyond the headland: an encounter with Keri Hulme
Last week Ali Ikram travelled to Oamaru to interview one of the country’s greatest living writers. Keri Hulme does not travel by plane to avoid lung infections.
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The Spy Who Didn’t Love Me
The following text was delivered as an address at the Muslim World Forum, Aotea Centre, 23 November, 2013. The forum marked eight years of relationship building between the Office of Ethnic Affairs and New Zealand’s Muslims.
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Russell Brand, Revolution and the “Real” world
Russell Brand is the only person who has suggested to me that the material world is an illusion. Given that he did so between service at Peter Gordon’s Dine, I was inclined to agree.
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The Songs That Saved Your Life
Some time between your first major disappointment and the arrival of a girlfriend – Morrissey gets you.
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Debauched puritanism
Samsara is the Buddhist concept of impermanence, or the constant flow of existence. Despite being unwittingly immersed in the idea my whole life (and possibly before too) I hadn’t heard the term until I saw the film.
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