I was speaking with one of my friends yesterday and she started telling me about her new lease of ‘Zen’. This reinvigorated outlook, originally stemming from a self-help book, has taught her how to take control, how to make more conscious decisions and how to live life with a more positive attitude. While books such...Read More
Women’s bodies have always been a battleground in one way or another. Married women regained their possession of their own bodies during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th and in the 1960s we gained the right to choose if we didn’t want to bring a new life into the world....Read More
I’m a jack of many interests and a master of none. Greek mythology is one of the many, but my knowledge mostly comes from trawling through Wikipedia pages for days on end. But even a rudimentary reading of the complex and devious world of the Greek gods reveals how much of our basic culture came...Read More
I’ve never believed in God as such, but when I was younger and felt that my life was awful I used to blame an unseen higher force for all my woes. It was easier to have something to aim all my anger at, to assign every misfortune, mistake and problem to a person or being...Read More
A tour of Cambodia would not be complete without a trip to Angkor Wat. So intrigued to explore this world heritage site we booked a sunrise trip to see one of the wonders of the world for ourselves. Built in the first half of the 12th Century Angkor Wat is one of the most important...Read More
Jamie Wei Huang looked to the concepts of afterlife for inspiration behind her SS16 collection, appropriately titled ‘Nibbana’ – derived from traditional Buddhist language. Huang’s collection was a beautiful and thought-provoking amalgamation of different cultures, countries and personal experiences of the afterlife. How different religions think and perceive heaven and hell. The result of this? A...Read More
The Taj Mahal is regarded as one of the eight wonders of the world, and some Western historians have noted that its architectural beauty has yet to be surpassed to this day. ‘Taj Mahal’, which literally means ‘crown of palaces,’ is taken from Persian and Arabic languages and truly lives up to its grand name. The...Read More
“We think that we are invincible because we are.” Of all the words I heard around the time of my grandmother’s passing six years ago, these were the only ones that eased my pain. At 15 years old the loss of someone I loved so dearly was unbearable; innocent, immature and above all unprepared I...Read More
Since the British colonisation of India in past centuries, cultural exchange between our two countries has been largely one-sided with Indian professionals adopting Western-style cultural practices. However in recent years, the appropriation of Indian cultural artefacts and behaviours has been become increasingly popular in fashion movements in the United Kingdom and throughout the Western world....Read More
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