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Thiksey And Visual Aggression
Our visit to Thiksey Monastery brought one of the most extraordinary and perturbing experiences of the tour. While eating...
Our visit to Thiksey Monastery brought one of the most extraordinary and perturbing experiences of the tour. While eating...
Here’s a little something new and different for regular readers. I’ve been toying for a while with offering free...
Art is never further from its potential than when it is cast as a form of competition. When we...
This is the first of a series of posts drafted while on the Lumen Dei Photo Tour of Ladakh....
This morning’s flight from Leh to Delhi was delayed (owing to cancellation of yesterday’s flights). Thankfully we made it...
Amongst the many things I’ve learnt about Ladakh is that it’s hard to get a decent phone line or...
Soon I’ll be back in Delhi, before embarking on a photo tour of Ladakh. I’ll also be spending a...
I have a new favourite Asian city – well, at least until the next visit Tokyo or Hanoi. Last...
There is an idea, attributed to Sigmund Freud, that life essentially consists of work and love. The absence of...
It’s been a while since the last post. Sometimes blogging is a funny game – it feels like one...
Can you overdose on inspiration? And what might the constant urge to find inspiration be doing to your...
Superstition doesn’t play a role in my worldview and the idea that we can “tempt fate” by talking about...
The FIFA World Cup is, of course, a festival of football. For a little over a month, every four...
Next month I was due to travel to Delhi, Kashmir and Ladakh. However, the Kashmir leg of the trip...
In the comments for a recent post, Toni asked a great question, “I wonder, a little bit, whether the...
While reading Ralph Waldo Emerson this morning, the following lines made me pause, “I hate this shallow Americanism which...