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Five Reasons to Discover Kyoto’s Magic in Winter
Discover the hidden secrets of Kyoto in winter –
the magical but least-known season that the locals love. From enchanting
illuminations in beautiful temples to seasonal...
6 Reasons Why Moscow Should Be Your Next Travel Destination
What is it really like in Moscow? We believe that Moscow is Europe’s
best kept secret with outstanding galleries, museums, world-class theaters,
gorgeous parks, exquisite restaurants...
The class distinction between Ezra Pound’s Alba and Bessie Head’s Maru
But the air
is growing cold. As cold as the angst of beginners. I am not that scholarship
girl in chapters and parts. I keep on...
The African Renaissance- poets
The Dutch poet Joop Bersee, has been
gifted confidante to me, selfless mentor, and I’ve have come to the beliefs,
the norms, the value of the...
What Emily Dickinson can teach us
The sun is a laughing, talking, walking
miracle today. If it shines, it shines only for me and Lavinia. What
perfection, because it shines with an...
Indonesia abandoning its Capital ?
I have
almost always lived in capital cities. I was born in New Delhi, resided in
London, Prague (before Czechoslovakia split in 1993), Budapest, Rome, Bonn
(long...
“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason,
but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings...
Survivors: Romantic love, the writing life and my heroine, Virginia Woolf
Her hair came undone
somehow in the water. And how it spread out. It was a flame. It was something
significant fanning, framing her beautiful, wonderful...
Defying the Herd: “Personhood,” War and the Triumph of Peace
Art, we may learn from Picasso, is "the
lie that lets us see the truth." In this connection, Swiss artist Alberto
Giacometti's iconic sculpture, Man
Pointing, appears...
Alone in the dark: The Sylvia Plath Effect and the Northern Areas poet
I was 16 when I first attempted to take my own life. I was seeing a
psychiatrist (he of the Einsteinian-hair, he had studied at...