Photograph Bitan Chakraborty Kiriti Sengupta divides his time between New Delhi and Santiniketan, the university town Rabindranath Tagore founded as a centre for learning and the arts, and this dual base anchors his writing in both contemporary Indian life and Bengal’s literary heritage. As a translator of Tagore and other Bengali poets, Sengupta has…

Nochebuena Photograph Jeffry Surianto by Phil Hall My three children are bathed, and clean in their pyjamas. In my hand a precious book from my partner’s collection of children’s picture books. Now, that the children have grown up the books are carefully boxed up and put away. But then there was the sweet smell…

Photograph Phili Mills by Phili Mills The Cornish were already settled in Britain’s far west peninsular where they were extracting and trading in metal from the Bronze age. The Cornish language is a Brittonic language, which includes Welsh and Breton and is part of the Celtic language family. It was spoken across Britain south…

Mount Kissavos viewed from Pineios bridge in Larissa. Photograph Konstantinos Agiannis Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in 1966 and grew up in Stomio, Larissa, Greece where Hippocrates himself spent his later years living and practicing medicine. Dimitris followed in the footsteps of Hippocrates. After studying Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he established his medical practice…

Photograph Tina Bexson by Tina Bexson I decided to run extra early. Just rats and foxes to eye me from the sidelines, penetrating the air with their activities of the night. And like a cat burglar at his most productive I prowled the streets with omnipotence. My darkly clothed lithe frame, and wide stride,…

Photograph Omar Ramadan by Ulises Paniagua I miss football: the old kind, the real kind. The era of the World Cups we witnessed is fading into the distance, overtaken by a paradigm that erupted, ferociously, at Qatar 2022. The gilded splendour that adorned that sheikh-laden spectacle, the gold of the television ads, of social…

The American lion feasts. Photograph Derek Keats Two friends debate Brian Berletic’s arguments against blaming Zionism for US wars, and hope that the EU can once again be a healthy region of a multi-polar world. RICHARD: It sounds like you want to overturn the whole world order, Phil. You say it’s not Israel – it’s…

Photograph Renan Lima, Pexels by Richard Steinhardt Stasis is a state of stability, equilibrium, or inactivity, with meanings that vary across contexts. The word comes from the Greek stasis, meaning standing or stoppage. In medical and pathological contexts, it refers to the slowing or stoppage of bodily fluids, as in venous stasis. In biology, stasis…

Photograph Bryan Smith The inspirational minister of the Methodist Church in New Malden and Kingston, Karl Rutlidge is sick with an inflamed heart. This is not a metaphor! He has Myocarditis an inflammation of the heart muscle. It is usually triggered by viral infections. His many friends in and outside the Methodist Church wish him…

Photograph El Capra by Peter Cowlam The Transmutation Si came down from the fields, where he’d been working, for the day was nearly departed. The sun had sunk towards the mountains, while the mingling hues of evening had faded in a wash of summer twilight. It was a pleasant, tranquil hour. As was his…