Dhaka, Aug. 15 -- I remember once seeing a political advertisement that featured a forlorn matriarch of the native Americas in gorgeous ethnic dress. The caption went like this: "People look at what w... Read More
Dhaka, Aug. 8 -- There is a celebrated saying by Pablo Picasso to the effect that art is a lie which tells the truth. The reality of that paradox struck me when I came across a Youtube video in which ... Read More
Dhaka, Aug. 1 -- In his book, The Outsider, Colin Wilson recalls the author G.K. Chesterton. "Chesterton has a hero who loves London so much that he would not dream of saying 'A taxicab came round the... Read More
Dhaka, July 18 -- When I was a graduate student of History at Cambridge, my thesis supervisor, the fatherly Leslie Wayper, once recited to me a wonderful little poem, "Which is Which", by a man called... Read More
Dhaka, June 20 -- Israel's pre-emptive military strike on Iran is the latest episode in a Middle Eastern conflict that began once upon a vanished time and that appears to have no end in a tangible fut... Read More