EDITORIAL
ARUN KAPIL
THE VOLTAGE OF FRESH: WHY FRUIT NEEDS FIRE
PHIL HALL PAUL HALAS GORDON LIDL
MEETING HEIKO KHOO
NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ
16. Little Tramp / Rich Man
PAUL HALAS WITH BING SHI
COLOUR, MOVEMENT AND BALLET
MOUNTAIN WEDDING
SUDEEP SEN
YOGESH PATEL
A SPINNING COIN OF DHŪRTĀKHYĀNA
THE RACIAL RESENTMENT OF THE WHITE CALIBAN
DUSTIN PICKERING
ECOLOGICAL DESTRICTION IS CLASS WAR
GORDON LIDL
7. NEVER AGAIN
DAVID YIP
ADEL DARWISH
THE RAMELEH TRAM CARRIES THE LIFE BLOOD OF ALEXANDRIA
POETRY
SHORT STORIES
BOOK EXTRACTS
TRAVEL WRITING
Two Short Stories by Beatriz Escalante
Oscar de la Borbolla: Notes on Language
Beena Kamlani: Excerpt from The English Problem
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Ajay Jain: Extracts from ‘Charlie’s Boys’
Ananya Vajpeyi: From Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities
S B EASWARAN: Five Poems
Priscilla Gac-Artigas: Gustavo Gac-Artigas in Translation
In Translation: TWO of Ewa Lipska’s FURTEEN TALES
Geo Milev: Prose Poems Translated by Tom Phillips
New Malden Writers in March
Patrick McManus, John Grant, Karl Rutlidge, Tom Frank & Phil Hall
FILM & POLITICS
GEOPOLITICS
SOCIAL COMMENTRY
TECHNOLOGY
RICHARD STEINHARDT
Gaming out the Iran War
The Continuing US Attack on Indian Non-Alignment
The Mysterious Death Wish of the Western Ruling Class
The Road to Greater Khorasan
PHIL HALL
Lebanon Envy
A Critique of Noam Chomsky’s Work
A Letter to the Apolitical You, Rudi
Solaris and the Loving Sky
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EXHIBITION AMEN
by Zeek Fharkha Zeek Fharkha is an artist, musician, punk, with 2 masters and an honours degree. Fine arts, digital arts and an MBA. He is reading for a PhD at wits business school in Design thinking.
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GOATS FOR THE PEOPLE OF PASHTUN ZARGHUN
By Inge Colijn During my 27 years of work for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, I lived in many countries and they all became special to me. But some places like Afghanistan mean more. I was told at our headquarters in Geneva that people from abroad working in Afghanistan would either love being…
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DANCING TO THE BEAT OF MY ART
Detail from Pure Bliss, Tasneem Shaikh Exhibiting at the World Art Fair in 2022 and 2023 by Tasneem Shaikh My heart races unusually fast. My joy has no bounds. For the first time, I am exhibiting my paintings at a major event, at World Art Dubai (WAD). It is March 2022. So far, I…
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SAINT JOHN OF THE RABBITS
Paricutín erupting, by Dr. Atl by Philip Hall I married into a large and regionally important Mexican family, and so got to know some parts of Mexico quite well. I lived there, first as a student at the university of Vera Cruz in the early eighties, later in Mexico City as a teacher, and…
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OPEN LETTER TO THE ALIENS
From July 12 to 29, 1952, a series of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings were reported in Washington, D.C. and later became known as the Washington flap You aliens are sociopaths – Interstellar Jeremy Clarksons by Phil Hall If you come to Earth, into our communities as a guest, then you must give an account of yourselves. If you don’t…
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1. ISOBAL & HENRY
Picture of Isobel and Joseph by Margaret Yip I was born in the middle of Clement Attlee’s term as prime minister in 1949. I was the fourth child born to my parents. My mother, Isobal, had been in service before marriage, and my father, Henry, was a miner. After my birth, they went on…
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CON’S SHAKESPEAREAN GARDEN
Visits to the Merlin of Coombe Hill by Phil Hall Con lives in the house he was born into more than 60 years ago. Everyone notices it from the street; partly because it looks run down and partly because there are sometimes cats in the front garden. One of the cats was bitten by…
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Tagore Prize Awarded to Sudeep Sen
The cover of Anthropocene, by Sudeep Sen Review by Peter Cowlam All of us here at Ars Notoria are delighted at the news that our poetry editor, Sudeep Sen, has been awarded the prestigious Tagore Prize for 2021–22. The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, a literary honour in India conferred annually for published works by…
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HAMBA KAHLE, HARRY
Harold Voigt, South African Painter 1st May 1939 – 9th October 2022 by Leigh Voigt How does one give an unbiased, honest appraisal of one’s own husband and have the gall to call it an obituary? Does one resort to clichés? Borrow words from the pens of others? No, one hones in on an…
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KING CHARLES III HAS A SACRED TASK
Dissolve the institution of Monarchy! by Philip Hall The idea that Charles III is divinely appointed to rule over us is ridiculous! Yet, ultimately, it is the metaphysical idea of the divine right of kings that gives King Charles III his legitimacy as the head of state. Ordinary British people are not citizens, but…
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