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NEW: BHAVNA PURSWANI trawls through the variegated paradise of Dubai, establishing the courses of human diversity, the chameleonic adaptations to old and new traditions, the transience and rootedness, and the constancy of individuality: "Several contrasting lifestyles exist side by side, interact and return from this odd collision unscathed." Her language is astute and refined.
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Between the Diurnal and Nocturnal |
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ISHMAEL FIIFI ANNOBIL introduces the mystries of night photography to a fomalist photographer (Abiy Mamo) and an Avant Garde filmmaker (William Olivier), rediscovering Ghandi as the guardian spirit of victims of terrorism, and why film is the ultimate medium of night. (PART 1)
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Nick Bryan makes the trek from Chelmsford to size up up london's new Absolut IceBar and comes away nonplussed: "Once you’ve paid the money, you’re supplied with an attractive and functional fur-lined, grey cape to repel the cold, which implies that your time in the actual icy area of the IceBar will be around 45 minutes."
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Nick Bryan follows in the footsteps of Lenin and finds they lead up a big hill. |
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Ishmael Fiifi Annobil celebrates Camden Town (“the ultimate kaleidoscope”) and its legendary Camden Market. |
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Deserted Sands of Rajasthan |
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Aaakriti Kaushik recounts her astonishing first-hand experience of female infanticide in Deorala, a small town in the western desert state of Rajasthan, fifteen years after the town’s infamous revival of the self-immolation rite of ‘suti’. |
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Rose Sher explores the post-red-curtain Prague and pays homage to the spirit of the place, people and a contemporary icon of resistance |
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Leaving Juba: Before the War |
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Ishmael Fiifi Annobil's remarkable road journey to and from the Sudan, chronicling the dire socio-economic and political catalysts of Sudan’s secessionist war, which was to follow and is still raging today. |
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