As part of Bloggers’ Portrait project, I and a few bloggers/colleagues/friends have recently had a conversation with a Russian author, blogger and an avid Twitterer, Vadim Ivanov. Born in Januar...
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Jawaharlal Nehru, an Indian Prime-Minister...
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one’s own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and...
The art of diplomacy consists in the ability to view a situation, especially a conflict, through the eyes of the opponent. The best example of this ability seems to have been presented by Gandhi’...
I have recently discovered one of Roman Polanski’s earliest works – it is a 1959 short, Gdy Spadają Anioły (When Angels Fall). You may already notice his interest in the neurotic, the funn...
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist...
Two weeks I spent in North Wales at the turn of 2007/2008 led to my love for quaint British pubs. Seriously, it was there and then that I made it a habit to have a drink of local beer whenever I visit...
If you want to go east, don’t go west. Ramakrishna...
This grand, pompous building is one of my favourite, if not the favourite, in Moscow and on Earth. This amazing edifice looks serene in summer when it is surrounded by flowerbeds and leafy alleys. And...
There are two things that one notices, while browsing or watching Henry Fuseli’s paintings. One, he was indeed an ardent student of Michelangelo: many of his figures show the vigour and dramatis...