I picked up a magazine at the railway station book stall recently. The lead story was about 15 Indian icons from different walks of life. Flipping the pages , I found familiar names – Amitabh Bacchan , Sachin Tendulkar , Rahul Dravid , Ratan Tata, Vijay Mallaya , Sania Mirza and some other familiars. […]
Lagos: A city under siege
This piece cost me three thousand naira to write and a lecture from the street school of experience. My car had displayed a niggling problem for a while, deciding to flat-line in the most unbelievable places for no reason at all, so my mechanic, Martin (in Lagos, they make house calls) and I decided […]
Using sound judgement when meeting someone from the internet
Rules to internet dating and using sound judgment when agreeing to meeting someone online. Keep in mind that what is being said will also help you to avoid problems and issues and here are 5 simple rules to consider: *Keep in mind that you don’t know who you are talking to on the other […]
My Grandparents
We inherit more than the obvious physical characteristics from family members, who come before us. The adage "fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree" serves as the perfect metaphor for familial relationships. The members of our families have an enormous impact on what we become, and the ways in which we define ourselves. […]
THEATRE AND DREAMS. ARRABAL – a psychoanlitic perspective
Unlike psychological theatre, which clearly expresses through language and situations, the characters’ superior truths, the 50s theatre changes the language and the situations from means of revealing the insight life of things into autonomous, independent objects. The exposed objects produce the life of characters. The avant-garde theatre, as essence of world and of playing, doesn’t […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]