My Homeland in the Imagination: An Homage to Salman Rushdie
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
This article was written when I was 16 years old and published in the popular astronomy journal “Akash Totthya.” They say it all began with Mary…
Saint-John Perse was born in the Caribbean in the ruling class during the colonial era. And he identified with that class which had come over…
The other photo was taken by my friend Gordon Hatt at the wedding of my dear friends Sarah and David in Manitoulin Island during that same summer. After…
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Having adopted three cats while I lived there, I spent considerable time in the busy waiting room of an animal hospital in the town of Waco,…
Nightmasks In dreamdarknessI come upon a nightEndless and vast Lit up by the moonlampcasting lightshadowson familiar faces — revealing theirnightmasks Wingseeds Dried wingseeds fall onThis alien…
For E. [This was published in Carved Voices and is based on an earlier essay of mine.] Late one evening, as I waited for her outside…
More time is not more eternity. — Juan Ramón Jiménez What if someone or something exists only for a very short interval of time? Would you…
On the 21st of June, 2019, I was invited to give a speech to celebrate 10 years of PSI. Here’s the speech (video starts at my…