‘Meditation’ (2024) Copyright photograph by Sudeep Sen (inspired by photographs shot by poet Sudeep Sen in Bhutan, June 2024) . by JHILAM CHATTARAJ an ekphrastic poem . Far, in the plains, sun-sleeved daylight ushers a cool, cobalt evening— . an echo of a word-shepherd chanting hymns across hypnotic hills….
Month: October 2024
Alexander Medved
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TAKHTI, THE IRANIAN PEOPLE’S CHAMPION
Takhti receiving a medal from the Iranian government with Mossadegh in attendance The embodiment of Fotovat by Ali Hosseyni Gholamreza Takhti’s غلامرضا تختی name is all over Iran and in ever city and town there are wrestling clubs with Takhti’s smiling photograph hanging on the wall in a position of honour. There is…
Art
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SKY, SEA AND VELD
Dirt Road to Hanover, Karoo © Walter Voigt 2024 WALTER VOIGT’S PAINTINGS OF SOUTH AFRICA by Paul Halas While some painters need a sense of detachment to produce their best work, others can’t but help show a sense of intimacy with their subjects. This is mainly true with artists and…
Golem
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When Hollywood rewrote South African History
Hollywood’s Golem version of Mandela by Phil Hall The Western media approved of what seemed like Nelson Mandela’s overly conciliatory beginnings after his release in 1990 and later saw the reflection of their own intentions in the strategies and policies of Thabo Mbeki’s government, the government that followed Mandela’s. In…
Acting
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1. ACTING PRESIDENTS
Bronze statue of FDR with his dog, Fala, Pexels by Norman B. Schwartz In his younger and leaner days, Orson Welles was summoned to the White House by the President of the United States. Franklin Delano Roosevelt greeted the actor, who he admired. “I am delighted to meet the second…
Community
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A Plop in the Ocean
Are offshore tankers a temporary solution to the sewage crisis? by Paul Halas, Phil Hall, Steve Parker, Nicole Stocks, Karl Rutledge . . Officially, the United Kingdom ceased to be a developing country when Sir Joseph Bazalgette CB, a descendent of French Huguenots, designed a new sewage system to solve…
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