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Rohit Manik

Rohit Manik

Social activist, poet, writer and university student

Oi coloured boy

Oi coloured boy, where’s your mates, where’s your money, Coming out of your bando, with decadence, anger, struggle and unrelent filling you with hazy visions of brood Smoke filled rooms with hollering teens percoset, speed and shrooms These concrete streets

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 and other Canberra events

In general Exhibition Park in and of itself is a beautiful and serene place to hold any kind of event with it’s long lawns of nicely mown grass, to it’s abundance of parking space and generally aesthetically pleasing buildings. Me

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The Journey of #Libspill

It would be a mere understatement to say the last 2 weeks for the Liberal Party have been troubling, as a leadership spill looms on the horizon and everyone making their political bets, things seem awfully dire for the Prime

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Migration and Cultural Diversity

Diversity is often preached as quite a simple process which simply requires an immigrant coming from a foreign land with different customs beliefs and religions to simply go to a barbecue and have a couple of beers with the local

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Diversity

Diversity is often preached as quite a simple process which simply requires an immigrant coming from a foreign land with different customs beliefs and religions to simply go to a barbecue and have a couple of beers with the local

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Finding the Grey in Charlie Hebdo

It’s been quite a turbulent 2014 and it seems that the views of yesteryear are still widely and strongly held in this fresh new year of 2015. There have been a number of issues plaguing our global consciousness, as there

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American Beauty – Movie Review

American Beauty, a film released in 1999 depicts at a first glance a snapshot into the picture perfect image of what is or was the “american dream” of success and prosperity. The film centres around a living what would generally

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Joseph Kony the Viral Rebel Leader

Kony 2012, one of the most viral social movements of the year so far, all rooted from a thirty minute documentary about a warlord by the name of Joseph Kony. The thirty minute beautifully presented video goes into the atrocities

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Holidays in Bangladesh

16 June, that was the date that my father (Shahadat Manik) had announced that we were going to Bangladesh on 09 December 2011, and that on 18 January 2012 we were to return, two days before my birthday. While there

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