The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World As we have discovered in January 2020, words matter. They matter even more when spoken by powerful men and women. I write this in the context of the dying days of Donald Trump’s presidency, when his words have incited...
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The corpse was frozen and bleached by the sun. It lay face down in the snow, fully extended and pointing uphill. The upper body was welded to the scree with ice. The arms, still muscular, were outstretched above the head. Mountaineer George Mallory had last been...
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Auroville, a town near Pondicherry in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, was established in 1968 with a goal of ‘human unity’ that still thrives today. If this sounds like a utopian community, Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone, wouldn’t necessarily agree. It’s...
Akash Kapur, Better to Have Gone is a fascinating story. What do you think draws certain people to these utopian communities, and why were they so popular in 1960s and '70s? I think it’s a combination of individual temperament and interest, on the one hand, and...
A Levantine Lament I grew up an immigrant in England; speaking English in an English-speaking world. Mine was an education in uniform singularity. Yet the gift of English kept on giving. It won me places at good English schools, endowed me with a top-notch education...
Auroville, 1986 October of 1986 and a man lies dying in a hut at the edge of a canyon. His name is John Anthony Walker. He’s on a mattress on a cement floor, and by his side sits a woman wrapped in a shawl, a yellow cat in her lap, and she cries. Her name is Diane...
