Thursday, November 19, 2015

Why don’t literature students read any real literature before college?

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There was an article with the title above, published some time ago. It provoked the following: My first Lecturer in English at univers...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

The history of Indian dance, Nartanam magazine, and the doyen of Indian dance critics

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" The doyen of Indian dance critics, Reginald Massey FRSA, is (among others) in a photograph from 1954 which graces the cover of the...
Monday, January 26, 2015

A friend nursing his wife suffering from cancer (and, foreseeably, bar a miracle, dying soon), writes most movingly

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He writes he's praying that his wife 'embraces this phase of her life with peace and assurance, and looks forward to a more splend...
Friday, January 09, 2015

Poem: "'Well Done!', she said"

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“Well done!”, she said to him, Echoing a man Much greater than herself, Knowing naught of either Sweat or agony ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Poem: My sister’s grave today is elegant and bare

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My sister’s grave today is elegant and bare Bereft ev’n of that stone which pressed her coffin down And had a little space to hold suc...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Investor Governance: Challenge vs. Opportunity. By Colin V. Habberton

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Here is an article by Colin V. Habberton, posted by his permission: Executive Summary Investment decisions made by asset managers are...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Some global implications of India under the New Prime Minister, Modi

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Even if you do not normally follow India, it is the largest democracy in the world, and the 2nd largest country in the world. So you may...