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A Day in Our Pandemic Life
I’m trying to chronicle how a typical day in these Covid Times goes by. Let’s see, I wake up late, which is around 7.30 a.m.,
Pandemic Ponderings
Since we shut down our economy over a month ago, I’ve been watching each day go by with a sense of bewilderment and dismay. My
The End of the Empire of Greed
I have watched the last three weeks unfold with a sense of an ending and a suspicion of a new beginning. It started when I
Budapest – straddling the Danube
The train on this stretch from Vienna was modest compared to the other, longer ride from Berlin to Vienna: three-to-a-row seating in first class instead
Vienna – a city of palaces
A small city in what is now a small country (modern Austria’s population is 9M) which possesses the legacy of an empire many times its
Berlin – a tortured past and a creative future on display
I’d always wanted to visit Berlin, Vienna and Budapest. I had many invitations, and for one or more reasons they never panned out. This time,
Wanted: A Balanced Forum for Debate
I was in my high school debating society a long time ago, a place I loved to hang out purely for the ideas that wafted
The Age of Evaluation
When I was a kid, I had to memorize the arithmetical tables, I had to remember important dates in history, and recall key cities in
When is it time to stop writing?
I have often thought about this day and what it would mean for me. I have given up a lot of things with age: cricket,
For whom the bombs toll
(This article was published in the Sri Lankan Anchorman newspaper in April 2019) Once upon a time, the bombs tolled only for those engaged in
The Reading Lists interviews Shane Joseph
How do you describe your occupation? I am a jack-of-all-trades, having had several occupations over 45 years of working life, sometimes several at one time.
Blackmail is Dead
There was the guy who popped a threatening e-mail into my inbox the other day saying that he’d caught me watching porn by inverting my
The Wombwell Rainbow Interview: Shane Joseph
Reproduced here are the Eleven Questions with answers: What inspired you to write fiction? I was always inspired by the parables of Jesus. So much
Our Headlong Rush into…what?
I wrote about Artificial Intelligence (AI) last year, and I am going to revisit it, in fact, I may revisit it many times in future.
A Meditation on Second Chances
I’ve often written stories in which my principal characters are offered a second chance to get it right. Either a new lover after a relationship