As I shared on LinkedIn and Twitter, sorry X, sometime ago, I am busy reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace these days, that my aged father gifted me in Goa for my birthday this year. I am on the second volume of the three-volume set, and since I don’t have a book to write about… Continue reading Cancel Culture of the High Low-Brow Kind
As if we don’t have enough going on already in our lives and across the world, we have new conflicts to deal with almost every other day. It has reached such high-pitched ridiculousness, that almost anything one says, or writes, or does, can be cause for another conflagration. If it isn’t our own ruling party… Continue reading Hot-Under-the-Collar Culture Wars
I don’t know about you, but the year 2015 was defined for me by images of hordes of people clambering on to boats to take them across the Mediterranean. Many making it to their destination and many others meeting a watery grave. Since then the sea has become a sort of metaphor for the European… Continue reading After the Financial Crisis, the World at Cultural Crossroads
Peripatetic Perch 