25 06, 2025

 The Rise and Rise of Oxford Indie Book Fair. Why? Is it tapping into a need? 

By |June 25th, 2025|Categories: Ai Weiwei, Art, Biography, China, Art & History, Cultural Appropriation, History, Lost History, Madras Courier, Novels and short stories, Oxford, The Oxford Times, The Stars ArtMovement|0 Comments

I’m one if the organisers of the Oxford Indie Book Fair. Our fairs are in Oxford in the University Examinations Halls and, on July 13, as the last event of the Oxford Festival of the Arts, in Magdalen College School

17 02, 2025

Politics, Lives, Page Turners:  The Courage of Claret Press publishing Sylvia Vetta and Pen Farthing  

By |February 17th, 2025|Categories: Ai Weiwei, China, Art & History, Cultural Appropriation, Events, Lost History, Novels and short stories|0 Comments

Politics, Lives, Page Turners:  The Courage of Claret Press publishing Sylvia Vetta and Pen Farthing   I first made this blog  before Pen Farthing and I talked at the Oxford Indie Book Fair . Today's Guardian feature warrants re-posting it.

22 01, 2025

How to stop the marginalisation of minority groups.

By |January 22nd, 2025|Categories: Ai Weiwei, Art, China, Art & History, India, Kennington, Letters to the press, Madras Courier, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories, Shepherd.com|0 Comments

In todays i Yasmin Alibhai Brown writes about British Citizens of Pakistani ancestry and how they regard the grooming gangs. The conclusion was that most people of that background despise them and are distressed by the suffering of the exploited

18 06, 2024

Speaking Truth to Power is still Perilous.

By |June 18th, 2024|Categories: Biography, China, Art & History, History, India, Kenya, Madras Courier, Novels and short stories|0 Comments

https://madrascourier.com/opinion/writing-the-womans-life The online Indian newspaper, The Madras Courier has published an essay by Lupamudra Banerjee. It is a powerful and deeply personal invocation of women writers who wanted to break the chains. The timing of this feature is inspired by