WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Shahrzad Ensemble – Shiraz Folk Song “Balal Balalam”
BALAL BALALAM – SHIRAZ FOLK SONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyu2axz7x3E
Read More »CHEHELSALEGHI / A FORTY YEARS: Romance, by Nahid Tabatabai
CHEHELSALEGHI / A FORTY YEARS Forty years. Iranian women, seen through the eyes of the writer. Reading the novel you will not find chador blacks, and even jealous men, but the female, the age of forty years, in Tehran. Observe women educated and combative, mothers and wives, in the charm of a beauty no longer age. You will also discover …
Read More »THE DEEP NIGHT: Poetry, by Forough Farrokhzad
THE DEEP NIGHT I speak from the depths of the night, from the depths of darkness, and from the depths of the night. I speak, if you come to my house, man. Bring a light and a window, I can look through, the happy crowd in the alley. (Forough Farrokhzad) http://www.amazon.com/Sin-Selected-Poems-Forugh-Farrokhzad/dp/1557289484
Read More »M. F. HUSAIN, (1915/2013), INDIAN PAINTER: Unity into the creative diversity, painting Indian urban and rural life
WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Traditional Indian music to the delight
TRADITIONAL INDIAN MUSIC TO THE DELIGHT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGXKk–dWE
Read More »OLEANDER GIRL: Romance, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
OLEANDER GIRL Reading this novel, you will know Karobi, a serious girl and stubborn, who grew up with his grandparents. On the threshold of her wedding, she decides to get to know its origins, in the United States. A month’s time, a private investigator, the relationship with her boyfriend that it cracks. As often happens, the meeting with an investigator’s …
Read More »THE LOOKING GLASS: Poetry, by Kamala Das
THE LOOKING GLASS Getting a man to love you is easy, only be honest about your wants as woman. Stand nude before the glass with him, so that he sees himself the stronger one, and believes it so, and you so much more, softer, younger, lovelier. Admit your admiration. Notice the perfection of his limbs, his eyes reddening under the …
Read More »SONG-SOO NAM (1938/2013): COREAN PAINTER: The spirit of Oriental paintingin black-white and color
SKY, WIND AND STARS: Novel, by Yun Dong-ju
SKY, WIND AND STARS His imprisonment and eventual death in 1945 in a Japanese prison lend great poignancy to his work. His poems sing of his love for his people, his compassion for the poor and destitute, and his hopes for freedom and independence. Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. “Wishing not to have …
Read More »PROLOGUE: Poetry, by Yun Dong-ju
PROLOGUE That I may look up at the sky until the day I die, without even an ounce of shame. Also for the wind that blows through the leaves, I have suffered. With the soul that sings the stars, I have to love all the things that go towards death. And then, the way that I was assigned, I will …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Korean Traditional Instrumental Music
KOREAN TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCikXm6hic
Read More »ZHANG XIAOGANG, CHINESE PAINTER: To create an effect of false photographs, locked up in an inner chamber
SHANGHAI GIRLS: Novel, by Lisa See
SHANGHAI GIRLS Fate, The Luck and Destiny, these are the three sections which make up the story of the writer. Reading the novel, you will discover the life of two women, and the pages are full of their memories, memories of a distant time, those of Shanghai in the Thirties. You’ll discover a city where ancient traditions were not forgotten, …
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