Glitzy Skyscrapers Are Turning Mecca Into Dubai-With-Pilgrims

It’s the world’s second-tallest tower, with a clockface visible 30 km away and searchlights shooting 10 km into the sky, featuring hotel suites costing up to $7,000 a night during the Hajj, all perched atop a massive high-end shopping mall and directly overlooking Islam’s holiest site. The Abraj al-Bait is the mammoth anchor of a slew of luxury slabs going up all over Mecca – towers for which the historic parts of the city are being razed.

Why Don’t Bollywood Films Get Marketed In English? They Don’t Even Translate The Titles!

“[This] tiny, simple tweak could do so much to extend their reach beyond Hindi speakers. The studios bother to subtitle their films for export – presumably for second-generation immigrants with a shaky grasp of the mother tongue, and curious foreigners – so why not extend the effort to some of the overall marketing as well?”

Free To Be You And Me After 40 Years: Why Marlo Thomas Had To Create It

The now-classic children’s album’s driving force remembers, in 1971, searching for books for her 3-year-old niece – and finding only (what now seem to us) rigid gender stereotypes. “My god, she thought. This is what she’s going to be reading. This is all there is for her to read. What am I going to do? Then she thought: I’ve got to make something that will obliterate this.”

Free To Be You And Me After 40 Years: How Marlo Thomas Got It Made From Scratch

Back in 1972, there were no mainstream songs or stories telling little girls that they could be pilots as well as stewardesses or athletes as well as cheerleaders – let alone telling boys that it could be okay to cry. Record labels and publishers weren’t eager to make such content, either. Fortunately, Thomas was determined – and she knew lots of famous people who could help.