I had a rough concept in mind - Bindi, a discarded folk art wooden doll who is superseded by more technologically advanced toys wants to go to "Bollywood" and find her fortune there.
Writing: After I finished my PhD at the University of St. Andrews, I did a postdoc in Strasbourg. Separately from...
A community bound into a vast network by radio frequencies, transponder codes, tail numbers, voices, and tracks on Flight Aware. Because “In the air, nobody can see the color of your skin.
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
Fiction: “The Return of The Space Gods” On an overcast, grey and shadow-less day a security drone buzzed high overhead,...
The most remarkable thing about Anderson's episodic TV series, each running to between 25 and 30 minutes, is how you are drawn into the carefully crafted puppet worlds...
I sat at the back where it was coolest and surrounded by the monochrome collage of pictures of Old Soho that papered the walls at the rear of the cafe, staring unblinkingly at the unending stream of traffic outside and people walking lazily past....
2 weeks ago to the day I had been taking a deep dive into the world of "AI Art" thanks to "Midjourney", a subscription-based online AI (for "Artificial Intelligence") art generator that builds images from text prompts - an early result is the featured image of this post - having seen interesting results online, before my investigations were rudely interrupted by a bout of COVID...
This biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was published this year. Nothing specific was said about the pandemic, but the obvious message is that it is time to more broadly understand her role in the adoption of inoculation as a medical technology.
I bought this book in 1978 and reread it after I finished my bio of Tove. Her father was a sculptor, Viktor Janssen, and her mother, “Ham”, an artist. It is a quick read-about 2 hours-and consists of short vignettes written from a child’s point of view.
The week of April the 14th 2019 saw the launch of the new CG animated adaptation of Tove Jansson’s creation “Moominvalley” – on Sky One in the U.K.
This is Nagendra’s first mystery, set in Bangalore in 1921. It is set in South India, not Bombay or Calcutta, which makes it unique in my experience.