Diana Mavroleon
What is it about the term ‘Alchemy’ that immediately throws the mind into a gymnasium of ideas and possibilities?
A laconic email from my editor read: ‘l would like you to absorb as much of this as possible’. l opened the attachment and studied the program. lt referred to a five-day festival taking place at [...]

Mamang Dai
The Stilwell Road: “Too much Rain.  Too much mud.  Too much malaria” :General Lewis. A. Pick.
More than half a century later the words of the general still rings true. In this part of the world in India’s extreme north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh that Pick was talking about there is enough rain [...]