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by Fiona
The largest violence in Narayanganj and many districts in Bangladesh was the 1964 East Pakistan riots which was the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Bengali Hindus from the East Pakistan period. In the Narayanganj sub-division alone, about 3,500 Hindus were killed, 300 Hindu women were abducted, 31,000 Hindu dwellings were destroyed, and 80,000 Hindus were rendered homeless.
文｜Fiona
穿過長長的狹窄巷弄，是一座停車場的非主流出口，一座茶棧就落在一排紅磚小房子的門前小廣場。一隻會握手的胖狗，在小廣場搖搖擺擺地向遊客討食物，茶棧主人則溫溫地滾著阿薩姆茶葉，加一點香料，再緩緩注入牛奶，靜靜煨著。等到整大鍋茶凝縮成半鍋時，他才開始斟奶茶給一個個久候的客人。
文｜黃敏琪
除了敏感的小女孩之外，所有孩子都在可控制的秩序中。我在今天一個小時的課程中搞不太清楚「奴性」與「秩序」的相互關係，那一線之隔的準則是什麼？奴性是天生還是被訓練出來的？秩序是社會化的過程嗎？那創造性與自由呢？
文｜Fiona
新德里的街道根本就是滑板天堂，尤其每個捷運站出口都擁有光滑的地面，許多滑點甚至沒有氣呼呼的警衛，階梯、欄杆、牆面⋯⋯到處都是玩滑板的好地方。就像每個地盤都擁有屬於社群的藝術空間一樣，滑板人則以公園、購物中心、公共設施為孕育文化的會面點。新德里市區的滑點諸如鹿園（Deer Park）、康諾特廣場（Connaught Place）、中央公園、帕利卡地下市場（Palika Bazar）、尼赫魯廣場（Nehru Place）、新德里國際展覽中心（Pragati Maidan）、安薩爾廣場（Ansal Plaza）、第九區溜冰場（Sector 9 Skating Rink）、郊區遊樂園 Mojoland。這座水泥叢林因此成為了印度滑板革命的重鎮，滑板文化自然在城市存活中。
by Fiona
New Delhi is simply skateboarding heaven, filled with tons of spots where you can have a great time skateboarding. Glossily ground around the metro stations, vast plazas, classic stairs, sloping walls, solid rails … even without an angry guard. Just like the art space in place gathers the local community, skaters assemble around the skate spots. Parks, shopping malls, and other public facilities are meeting points to nurture culture. Such as Deer Park, Connaught Place, Central Park, Palika Bazar, Nehru Place, Pragati Maidan, Ansal Plaza, and Sector 9 Skating Rink…. Therefore, this concrete urbane jungle is the birthplace for the skateboarding revolution. Skateboarding culture exists naturally in the city.
文｜黃敏琪
有了前車之鑑，這次上課我帶了愛心小貼紙以備緊急管秩序使用，且一上課就先約法三章，誰也不准跨到教室後半部。我在教室中間用小椅子築好一道牆，孩子們還興沖沖地跟我一起搬。但最終我才理解這方法根本沒用，越界對孩子來說是更大的樂趣。除了一個一個把他們抱回原地之外，我也氣急敗壞地說出「我不想變恐龍吼你們！」、「再跑過去下次你們就看不到我了」這種話。
by Fiona
It’s a trick that changed the whole skate world.
文｜Fiona
後腳腳踝輕巧向下點，身體向上，剎那間抬起前腳刷板頭，讓板身推平、躍過障礙，最後讓雙輪同時落地——直到今天，它仍是任何新手進入滑板界的門檻，也是更多滑板動作的本質與基礎。起源自 70 年代，是一個世界正在發生各種變化、充滿現代主義精神的時代。不只滑板界研發與實驗新材料，也是資本主義商品化、自我指涉的開始，藝術方面在當時則正從現代主義過渡到當代藝術。
By Lewis Gesner
It occurred to me once that the pursuit of human improvement and the harnessing of nature’s powers was a noble one, from reading Frankenstein and other old novels, such as First Men In the Moon, or The Time Machine, which both dealt with a compelled scientist. And then there was The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which also had to do with seeking human improvement.
by Lewis Gesner
在讀了《科學怪人》及《月球急先鋒》、《時光機》這些與激情科學家打交道的故事後，再加上另一部也是關於人類進步的小說《化身博士》，我蹦出了一個想法，認為追求人類進步、利用自然力量是十分崇高的。