The Inheritance of Illnesses
“When sickness becomes a permanent member of your house, it is better to give it a bed to sleep on.” Manjiri Indurkar looks at the darker side of ageing in one New Delhi family.
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Beyond the Cuba Bloqueo
“I knew little about the island nation I would visit, only that Cuba was a place of rich cigars and dark rum, balmy breezes and mighty fishermen, percussive music and syncopated dance steps.” Kit-Bacon Gressitt shares her journey to Cuba during el bloqueo.
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An Interview with My World Project Founder, Karen Hunt
“As a child, I lived in other countries, way back in the 1960s, when it wasn’t common to see a child from Los Angeles attending a village school in a far off place — it still isn’t common, I’m sure.” Constance A. Dunn interviews Karen Hunt.
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Dolphins: Kaikoura, New Zealand
“We swivel our heads around until a diamond cuts through the waves. A diamond made up of dusky dolphins with silver stripes on their chins.” Nicolette Loizou swims with dolphins in New Zealand.
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Unconditional Surrender: April 30, 1975
“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.” Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.
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On Monsters
“This made me reassess everything that I thought I had known about him, and to an extent what I thought I had known about myself.” Deonte Osayande looks at what happens when a childhood friend becomes a murderer.
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Randy Coal-cutter: Part II
“New constructions in the city — often featureless, rectilinear beehives built inside gated compounds — are frequently christened as a ‘court’, ‘manor’ or an ‘enclave’.” Part II of Chitralekha Basu’s look at how English is used in modern Calcutta.
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Randy Coal-cutter: Part I
“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
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Transitory Condition
“Characters…in motion, changing, and searching for identity. Any attempt at traditional syntax construction is lost, and subsequently altered, as the words themselves become reflections of the character’s mindset.” Noah Klein defines the transitory condition of Michael Ondaatje’s characters.
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Ruins and Shelters
“All of us lived in fear of the eminent bombing from America for a number of years, but exploring bomb shelters still became our favourite pastime.” Nellie Barg remembers her childhood in post-WWII Kiev.
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