For centuries clothing has been a wearable status symbol, fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. A Woman in London, wear embroidered velvet boots, hair not seen a brush for days, and deconstructed jackets, while in America women wear sleek Armani or Donna Karan suit,…
Keats “vertiginous originality” as explained by Lucasta Miller. Keats was trained as a doctor when he was 24 when he read his doom ( “my death warrant: I must die”) in a handkerchief spotted with bright arterial blood, John Keats died 200 years ago, aged 25, as his lungs were already so ravaged by Tuberculosis…
Ever thought about the world’s happiest, most contented, most fulfilled people and wondered how did they achieve it. It is neither their genes nor their money but it is all about the small choices they make every day. Things even you can do. Things you can change. It’s all about what they know and…
Miguel Ruiz distills essential Toltec wisdom on human relationships as well as techniques for integrating this awareness into daily life. This book is a must-read for every guy and girl, which has four agreements, including Why domestication and the image of perfection lead to self-rejection. The war of control slowly destroys most relationships. Why we…
Positive thinking is the key to a happy rich life. Super blogger Mark Manson says “ Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it”, in his internet blog without sugar-coating or equivocating a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. He subscribes his antidote to…
Kamala, the daughter of a Jamaican-born father and India-born mother who met in the 60s Bay Area political activism. In her 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech as Joe Biden’s running mate, she proudly recalled having “ a stroller’s eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called “ good trouble”. Her…
A fictitious English saint, Odo of Whye, commanded a couple of handy superpowers including the prescience which let him see through the fogs of nowadays into far future ages and could be in two locations at once. Hurdy Gurdy is Christopher Wilson’s 10th novel and reveals the picture of plague-ridden 14th century England, with its…
Katra Sadatgani a tiny village in western Uttar Pradesh, where a community is bounded by tradition and custom, where young women are watched closely and know what is expected of them. On an ordinary night, two girls Padma and Lalli went missing, and the very next day their bodies were found hanging in the orchard,…
The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland, or Hungary as for 150 centuries Britain has been inhabited and been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. Will the unruly forces unleashed by Brexit break up the Union? Historian, Robert Tombs reveals that…