Shahryar Rizvi’s blog

  • How to Develop a Healthy News Media Diet

    How to Develop a Healthy News Media Diet

    I get annoyed when people on my social networks say “The news media doesn’t cover this story”. Here’s the rub; they either share a news story, or they never see the news that is published about the topic because of a filter bubble. Media watchers coined the term “fake news” to identify hoax stories and […]

  • Revisiting Anime in 2020

    Revisiting Anime in 2020

    Since I got back into anime with Legend of Galactic Heroes, I can say that anime is back in my life. COVID-19 has also given me some time on weekends to watch anime more alongside other hobbies. I can see the progress it has made since I grew up and saw a lot of other […]

  • Review of Legend of Galactic Heroes

    Review of Legend of Galactic Heroes

    After staying clear from anime for a few years. I got into Legend of Galactic heroes last year as recommended by the Waypoint podcast. As a fan of both the political themes of earlier seasons Game of Thrones and political themes in science fiction in general, I was fascinated by their description of a show […]

  • The Videogame that Dares to Tackle African Politics

    This article originally appeared in the publication Kill Screen on June 2nd 2016. Because Kill Screen is no longer active, and the site is offline. I have saved the article as it was published. The original link was https://killscreen.com/articles/videogame-dares-tackle-african-politics/ Videogames have a problem with how they portray Africa — the continent often appears as nothing more than […]

  • My experience with retro games through Raspberry Pi 3

    My experience with retro games through Raspberry Pi 3

    A month ago I took a plunge and got a Raspberry Pi 3, a credit-card sized single board computer running versions of Linux. I intend to do a few projects with single board computers. My first project is a retro gaming station on Retropie.

  • ALTbrown Finale: the last episode

    After three years of both serious and fun conversations highlighting alternate perspectives in diaspora communities. Sharky and Pady have decided to hang our hats. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback and supported us through our run. You can keep up with ALTbrown and the podcast family on Facebook and Twitter. ALTbrown was a collaboration between Shahryar Rizvi […]

  • D’Loco Kid – Sri Lankan Tamil trans performer & entertainer

    D’Loco Kid is a writer, performance artist, comedian and actor of Sri Lankan Tamil descent based in L.A. from ALTbrown Podcast http://ift.tt/2pTDY6n via IFTTT

  • Flat Tire Productions Returns with Love Bites play Kickstarter

    Members of the indo-Caribbean entertainment group Flat Tire Productions returns with  new crew and a Kickstarter for their five one-act play series “Love Bites” from ALTbrown Podcast http://ift.tt/2pyONsz via IFTTT

  • Sundari The Indian Goddess

    Zaman M. Amin a.k.a Sundari The Indian Goddess is a Guyanese-American dancer trained in Kathak, Orissi, Bollywood, Bhangra and Chutney styles. from ALTbrown Podcast http://ift.tt/2opXvYi via IFTTT

  • Omar Majeed

    Omar is a Montreal-based filmmaker and director of the 2009 documentary Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

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