The Raghu Dixit Project
From the outside, success seems to come fast. A former graduate student in microbiology, Raghu Dixit is a self-taught guitarist and singer from Bangalore in south-west India; the first CD released by his band, The Raghu Dixit Project, was the…
Where have the guardians gone?
Guest post by Sandra Janus Among other worthy endeavours, World Press Photo (in concert with Angola’s Banco Espirito Santo d’Angola) created a special photography exhibition for the United Nations Year of the Planet in 2008, an exhibition that has continued…
Would you like a bank with that football club?
It will come as no surprise to avid followers of European football that many of its most illustrious clubs are financially supported today, in part or in whole, by sovereign wealth funds, corporations, and private investors from outside the continent….
The things our father taught us
Guest post by Luke Grundy Mexican cinema sets the bar high. In the last twenty years we’ve seen talents as diverse as Guillermo Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Gael García Bernal and typist’s nightmare Alejandro González Iñárritu emerge from Central America’s…
The social Noguchi
Before social media made staying in touch with acquaintances on a mass scale a trivially easy exercise, human beings had to do sordid-sounding things like “meeting for drinks” and “working together” in order to achieve the same end. For all…
What the turtle stands on
There’s an old but apocryphal anecdote (or very funny joke, if your sense of humour is similar to mine) about a scientist or philosopher (in some accounts Bertrand Russell, in others William James) giving a lecture on modern cosmology. As…
