Mar
18
Night Ferry to Pathos
It was 2 am when I discovered a vacant table in the cafeteria and tried to sleep.
Perched precariously atop
5 min read
Tom Lewin
Mar
15
All The Wrong Things Move Quickly in India
Taner was in the fetal position when I said goodbye. He'd been coiled up like a street dog
4 min read
Mar
12
The Fallibility of the Gods
I recently read that there is increasing evidence to suggest that the Greeks didn’t believe in the objective reality
3 min read
Mar
06
Night Train to Yerevan
I was shaken awake by a dark grey blur and slow, deep voices. As my eyes opened, a tattooed rosary
4 min read
Feb
22
One Last Sunday
I lay there with my head resting on the grubby pillow of some cheap Nepali digs I’d found after
3 min read
Feb
22
Afternoons With Leila
And we'd sit in her dingy little kitchen drinking rose tea, watching the steam from the Persian rice
3 min read
Feb
21
Art As Nourishment
For most people, art’s an amenity.
Puppetry on the periphery of Life.
We consume, excrete, work, make love, sleep,
2 min read
Feb
20
As I Watched You Bathing in the Ganges
Something stirred in me as I watched you bathing in the Ganges.
Your young, slender body relinquishing the sari so
2 min read
Feb
17
Andheri Mornings Pt. 1
I'd washed up in Bombay by early March 2020, two weeks before the world shut down.
Auroville had
4 min read
Jan
26
The Crumbling West
Everywhere, in all directions, our Western social fabric is crumbling.
Undermined from within by millions of privileged, ignoramic idiots wielding
3 min read