“The whole world is in a terrible state of chassis”, Captain Boyle,…
Category: In Passing (page 11)
In Passing: “With an alien people clutching their gods”
It is difficult to pick up any left-leaning newspaper, magazine or journal…
In Passing: Epiphany in Trafalgar Square
An image has been haunting me for months. It was captured –…
In Passing: Global warming or global amnesia – which is the bigger threat?
The catastrophe of our time which conventional wisdom identifies readily – even…
In Passing: The revolution which transformed the world
We look back at the classical world and classical civilization with glasses…
In Passing: Modernity laid bare: the beetle on the road to Munich (Part II)
Evegeny Vodolazkin was born and raised in the Soviet era. For him,…
In Passing: Modernity laid bare: ‘The history of a man’s soul’ (Part I)
Have we been duped by modernity? Was the rise of Christianity in…
In Passing: A Flawed Vision of Mankind
For most of the time ordinary people don’t want power. They just…
In Passing: The Empire Strikes Back?
Even if one considered it as another magnificent literary artifact, one among…