I ventured to the north of Moscow today, near the VDNKh – the famous All-Union Exhibition Centre. By the time I was going back home via the same metro station it was snowing heavily, and I could...
Kinship is a blood relationship, friendship is a love relationship. The proverb of the Luyia people, the Bantu ethnic group that lives predominantly in Kenya but also in parts of Uganda and Tanzania....
Not unlike Paul Arden in his book, I failed to find a better caption for this photo, so please feel free to offer your ideas. The photo is that of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. The balc...
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity. Albert Einstein, a German physicist, the ...
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher...
As the Oscars are imminent, I do hope that King’s Speech continues being the favourite at the ceremony. In the meantime, below is a famous extract from Vittorio de Sica’s 1963 tour-de-forc...
London, 2004 The photo in London was taken on a film camera (affectionately known as a “soapbox”) in April 2004; it was the day when I walked from Fitzroy Street through High Holborn and v...
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recen...
I took these photos of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Smolenskaya Square on the day of my birthday in December. My father and I were walking down the Old Arbat Street, wra...
To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the we...