Angola 1989, photo Andy Hall
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Raghu Rai (Dec 18, 1942 — April 26, 2026). R.I.P.
Raghu Rai with Sudeep Sen March 5th 2024. Photographs Sudeep Sen I was privileged to know Raghu Rai. He was a very kind, generous and spiritual human being. In his memory, here is an ekphrastic poem I wrote in 2013 responding to one of haunting signature photographs. The poem was published…
3I/ATLAS
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Decolonise the Language of Space Exploration
Colonialist is a reference to an interloper; someone who needs to be dislodged, removed, or absorbed by Philip Hall I was born in South Africa. The great grandson of colonialists: Arthur Lewis Hall and Rosalie Powell. My great-grandfather was one of Kitchener’s babes. He was a geologist brought out to…
Americanization
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IRRITATING AMERICAN SPELL CHECKERS
Was Noah Webster right to ‘rationalise’ the spelling of English? by Phil Hall “Now is the time and this the country in which we may expect success in attempting changes to language, science, and government. Let us then seize the present moment and establish a national language as well as…