"Come Back To Afghanistan"

Here is another book giving a different angle to mainstream media to help you fill in more spaces of the Middle East jigsaw puzzle.
The author, Said Hyder Akbar, was born in Afghanistan, left while he was a child during the Russian occupation, moved to Pakistan and then to the USA with his family. He comes [...]

"Murder In Samarkand"

This is not exactly a ‘hot off the blogosphere’ posting as the book I have just completed reading was published several years ago. However, the lessons to be learned are as horrifying and as relevant now as they were in 2006. Just as Mr Murray states in his book many of us believed that being [...]

Atmospheric Inspiration

Is this Divine Guidance/Inspiration? I was looking at the log of hits for the blog the other day and saw one or two that had arrived via Google searches. Out of curiosity I did equivalent searches using the same criteria as the original visitors, just to see what they had been looking for [...]

Consuming Passion

Isn’t this just what we wanted all along, a sensible article about eating and some simple advice about diet, all of which can summed up in the opening seven words – “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants”.
According Michael Pollan, the author, we are victims of an all-round conspiracy driven by the government, [...]

Tug of War

When the Chinese do something they like to do it in big numbers. I don’t know if this event would make it to the Guinness Book of Records but it is enough to impress me. Yesterday, in Changsha, Hunan Province, two teams, most of whom were students of Hunan University, competed in [...]