Remembering the past: an unfinished conversation
ChrestomatherLast week my Twitter feed led me to a thought-provoking piece by Raghu Karnad on Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.…
Schooning with Dragons 2
Komodo is the kind of island that inspires fantasy. From a distance, the ridge that runs along it …
Schooning with Dragons 1
The Bugis (or Buginese) are one of the great seafaring peoples of the Indian Ocean. Like those other great mariners, the Greeks, they are also great story-tellers: their epic,…
From Yangon
Dr Thant Myint-U is one of Burma's leading contemporary historians. His book River of Lost Footsteps is essential reading for anyone interested in Burma. His 2011 book…