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Ready, set, Zoom: India gypsy dancers take their art online
AFP, Published on 30/08/2020
» JODHPUR, India: As a blackout plunged her desert dwelling into darkness, Suwa Devi, a dancer belonging to India's Kalbeliya gypsy community, asked her neighbour to turn on his jeep's headlights so she could continue teaching her Zoom class, outside.
Barbed humour
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/10/2018
» It was as a soldier boy in President Truman's "Police Action" that I first visited Asia -- South Korea and Japan.
Boom Phum!
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 16/10/2018
» 'Well, I still don't know how I really got here," says Phum Viphurit, a Thai born, New-Zealand-raised singer-songwriter.
Everything under the sun: A heated run through the region
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 24/02/2013
» In Richard Arthur's I of the Sun, a backpacker sets off for Southeast Asia to experience new cultures, to understand himself and life better, to forge a new beginning. The backpacker falls in love with Thailand's party scene, girls and natural beauty, while pondering the origin of the universe, the nature of cause and effect, the extent of free will _ all in a haze of uppers, downers, hallucinogens and casual relationships. Along the way he catches dengue fever and skin infections, becomes addicted to any number of substances and thrills, feels a bit of sympathy for others in their plights and a lot more for himself in his.
Giving the gift of Letters
Life, Published on 17/12/2012
» Books are gifts that last. The joy of giving and the pleasure of reading are wrapped neatly into one during this festive season as the Bangkok Post's reporters and editors recommend books to suit a wide range of tastes and passions. From pictorial tomes to moving fiction and practical manuals, plus delectable cookbooks and even theoretical studies on fashion writing, no presents are more worth unwrapping than fine new books.