Surviving the Moscow summer is no small feat, although this year it is bearable, compared to 2010 when there were forest fires, and the smog was penetrating every pore of any living creature. During t...
Even before the world athletes flock to the Russian Sochi for 2014 Olympic Games, the regions of Russia are going to practise the Olympic fever by holding the Olympic Games for folklore characters. Sc...
There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient. Alan Hovhannes, an American composer...
One of Moscow’s celebrated monuments, The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat, otherwise known as St Basil’s Cathedral, marks its 450th anniversary today. The celebrati...
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. Edward Said, a Palestinian American literary theorist ...
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. J. B. Priestley, an English novelist, playwright, and bro...
The last few weeks were hot. In fact, they were HOT. I very nearly began to miss Manchester where there is always a high possibility of rain even on the hottest day. I was so glad when it rained this ...
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, / And the epitaph drear: `A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East’. Rudyard Kipling, a British poet and wr...
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an Indian leader...
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumbl...