Most Westerners, if they know the Bauls at all, remember the non sequitur of a couple of members of this Bengali sect standing next to Bob Dylan on the cover of Dylan’s milestone album "John Wesley Harding. " The story goes that Dylan was depressed, and his foster-father/ manager, Alb...
I might have further upset him a little more when I told him we don’t “cherry pick” obscure verses to support our beliefs instead we believe in “plenary inspiration” meaning the “whole of scripture” is inspired. Furthermore, I reiterated again, the Bible is clear– it is Jesus who...
The man went off to find some paint and he returned in just a matter of minutes. He had two pots of paint. One pot was filled with white paint, and the other black paint. The old man first painted them white, and then painted black stripes(斑纹) over the white paint. When he fini...
Adam Rex Adam Rex is the author of The True Meaning of Smekday, the book Home was based on. Despite this fact, many people do not know that. If you have ever watched a movie based on a book, you know that they never get the details right (but it is a bit fun to see the chang...
But also seeing the joy in both of those worlds and in that bridging。 Bethe , 2021-05-10 00:00 Lovely look at a girl stretched between 2 different cultures, her old home in the Bengali village and her new home in the town in the USA。 Love the illustrations, they vibrantly show...
Take it from me—there is nothing “in the air” in another country that will magically make you able to speak their language. I’ve done a lot of experiments to prove this (e.g. learning Arabic while living in Brazil). I’ve met countless expats who lived abroad foryearswithout learni...
Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali author and scholar who was opposed to the withdrawal of British colonial rule from the Indian subcontinent. His notable works include The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951) and A Passage to England (1959).