Apr 12, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
I am not going to speak about the demise of the free press in India. All of us gathered here know all about that. Nor am I going to speak of what has happened to all the institutions that are meant to act as checks and balances in the functioning of our democracy. I...
Sep 24, 2020 | 2020, Playlists, Toons |
Not all of us can be experts on the 1970s rock scene in Benin and also be all over the late 1960s Thai jazz & molam movement, which is why world music compilations made by thorough musical archivists are so worth your time. Of course not everyone wants to know...
Mar 2, 2019 | Non-Fiction, Travel |
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. What’s become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip? But a travel book is the opposite, the loner bouncing back bigger than life to tell the story of his experiment with space....
Dec 2, 2018 | 2018, Featured, Mixes, Toons |
Two mixes in one year, this is bordering on prolific! Ken Nordine kicks this mix off with some of his unique ‘word jazz’ stylings, before we move over to world jazz, a whole heap of afrobeat, classic and modern, the surprisingly beautiful theme music to...
