Paradox in Paradise – Poems & Essays
Mark Ulyseas – Whose swastika is it anyway?
Joo Peter – Bali Swastika
Randhir Khare – Singing the Sea
Farrukh Dhondy – Prophet of Love
Terry McDonagh – In the end…
Dr Peter Phipps – Indigenous Festivals in Australia: Performing cultural survival
Raphael Susewind – Being Muslim and Working For Peace –Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Gujarat
Chris Hedges – We Are All Aboard the Pequod
Natalie Wood – Israel’s Stumbling Block Before The Blind
Candess M Campbell – Prayer and Meditation
Live Encounters Magazine March 2013 http://liveencounters.net/?p=2711 features –
01. Candess M Campbell Phd. – Guest Editorial
02. Father Ivo Coelho from the Ratisbonne Monastery, Jerusalem, has written an exclusive article for Live Encounters titled – The Person, Human and Divine, in India – Richard De Smet’s contribution
03. Chris Hedges, American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer – The Myth of Human Progress.
04. Marc Wiese, Documentary film maker of CAMP 14 Total Control Zone (about a North Korean who escaped from one of the concentration camps) in an exclusive Skype interview with Mark Ulyseas.
05. Irish Poet, Playwright and Writer, Terry McDonagh pens a heart breaking poem – Limbo.
06. Natalie Irene Wood from Galilee says it – Jews Should Ignore Holocaust Memorial Day.
07. From student activist to law maker, Rainer Tormin chats with Mark Ulyseas about the breathtaking era of the late 60s early 70s in West Germany when students “made” the change.
08. A young Bengali photographer, Sourav Jourdar exhibits his photographs of Bengal.
09. Human Rights Watch report on Canada’s Highway of Tears… a must read!
10. Randhir Khare’s Harvesting Silver is about the traditional fishermen in Indian and their fight for survival.
Please share this edition with all your family and friends.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
Mark Ulyseas Publisher/Editor
Just out – The Free online magazine Live Encounters Annual 2012 featuring the crème de la crème of the very best from Joo Peter, Randhir Khare, Mark Ulyseas, Jill Gocher, Natalie Wood, Anat Hoffman, Steven Beck, Sari Ganulin, Chris Miller, Carmen Roberts, Antje Missbach, Jemma Purdery, Navina Jafa, Marcus Mietzner, Budi Hernawan, Barnit Bagchi, Romit Bagchi, Candess M Campbell, Terry McDonagh, Philip Casey, Sue Healy, Peter Gonsalves, Bobby Chinn, Enrico Wahl, Richard Ganulin, Kori Jean Olsen, John Hank Edson, Caroline Bennett, Carol Buckley, Harish Nambiar, Anjum Katyal, Arjun Bagga, John Chester Lewis, Matthew Van Ortton
The Annual 2012 showcases the crème de la crème of contributions of the year from leading poets, writers, photographers, civil & human rights activists, indigenous rights activists, artists and more all wrapped up in 434 pages!
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Writers, poets, photographers, civil & human rights activists, animal rights activists, social workers, professors, people from theatre and music, culinary gymnasts and more contribute free of cost to share their knowledge with the world for we all live in a small village in the universe called Earth.
VOLUME ONE Guest Editorial by Anat Hoffman, Civil & Human Rights Activist Letter to the Editor by Brother Budi Hernawan OFM on the prevailing situation in Papua and an appeal to the Government of Indonesia for Peace Talks Terry McDonagh wellknown Irish Poet,writer and Playwright talks about his life and works Eric Hobsbawm – Another Jewish Contrarian by Natalie Wood Are Bengalis characteristically Left-inclined? A study Romit Bagchi 2012 – Another Year of Living Foolishly? – Mark Ulyseas Photo Gallery – Cuba – Joo Peter Remember and Resist – Randhir Khare Generating Yourself! – Candess M Campbell Peace Needs More Than Talk – Steven Beck VOLUME TWO Guest Editorial by Jemma Purdey, Woman-Mother-Writer One Dollar For Music Raoul Wijffels in an exclusive interview Photo Gallery – Bali – Jill Gocher Beering and fearing in Khajuraho – Harish Nambiar Book Review: Jeffrey Winters’ Oligarchy – Marcus Mietzner Dr. Navina Jafa, author of Performing Heritage: Art of Exhibit Walks in a Live Encounter Fadedgenes – Excerpt One From a work in progress book by Mark Ulyseas Pastel ab Hmas – Richard Ganulin I Hate Deadlines – Arjun Bagga Art in Food – Enrico Wahl’s Food Art with photography by Mark UlyseasA thank you to all my friends on WordPress. Keep writing, let the world know we are only a village in this great big expanse of the Universe.
Peace.
Dear Readers,
The main feature is The Living Word – Tales from Tribal India by Randhir Khare.
• An interview with Bobby Chinn, the celebrated restaurateur and TV Presenter. He has hosted the World Cafe Asia show for the Travel and Living Channel, BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, UKTV Food’s Great Food Live and Bobby Chinn Cooks Asia for the Discovery Channel. A must read is his bestselling book Wild, Wild East, Recipes & Stories from Vietnam.
• Joo Peter’s photo exhibit of the Jade Emperor Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) is a collector’s item.
• The beautiful and gifted Country star, Kori Jean Olsen, from Austin, Texas, speaks about her life and work in an exclusive interview. She is on the verge of great stardom.
• Terry McDonagh’s poem, A Journey Home!, was written about 20 years ago and yet the emotions are alive and relevant in the verse.
• Special Report – Asylum Seekers in Tel Aviv by Steven Beck, Director of Israel-Diaspora relations, Irac, on the African refugees in Israel raises a number of uncomfortable questions on Jewish values besides highlighting the wonderful charity work that is being done.
• It takes a village – A photo feature on ARDC by Sari Ganulin reflects the pathos of the African refugees.
• Candess M Campbell’s, Creating Healthy Boundaries, is essential reading for those seeking a balanced life.
• John Chester Lewis exhibits two of his paintings that he feels will be of interest to his new born daughter in the years to come.
We request you to kindly pass this free magazine on to everyone you know.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
Pleiad – A poem by a writer and poet born in Wales. She is currently based in London with her husband Mike Fincken, a captain who sails and works with the international environmental NGO, Greenpeace. They are recently married and are expecting their first baby in early Summer followed by ‘plans to run back to the wilds to settle as a family’.
I’m Damned – Yet another disturbing poem from an Indian Poet.
LINK – Live Encounters Magazine June 2012
News Report from The New York Times
In a private house in a quiet university neighborhood of Kabul, Ogai Amail waited for the phone to ring. Through a plate-glass window, she watched the sinking sun turn the courtyard the color of eggplant. The electricity wasn’t working and the room was unheated, a few floor cushions the only furnishings. Amail tucked her bare feet underneath her and pulled up the collar of her puffy black coat. Her dark hair was tied in a ponytail, and her eyelids were coated in metallic blue powder. In the green glare of the mobile phone’s screen, her face looked wan and worried. When the phone finally bleeped, Amail shrieked with joy and put on the speakerphone. A teenage girl’s voice tumbled into the room. “I’m freezing,” the girl said. Her voice was husky with cold. To make this call, she’d sneaked out of her father’s mud house without her coat.
Like many of the rural members of Mirman Baheer, a women’s literary society based in Kabul, the girl calls whenever she can, typically in secret. She reads her poems aloud to Amail, who transcribes them line by line. To conceal her poetry writing from her family, the girl relies on a pen name, Meena Muska. (Meena means “love” in the Pashto language; muska means “smile.”)
Meena lost her fiancé last year, when a land mine exploded. According to Pashtun tradition, she must marry one of his brothers, which she doesn’t want to do. She doesn’t dare protest directly, but reciting poetry to Amail allows her to speak out against her lot. When I asked how old she was, Meena responded in a proverb: “I am like a tulip in the desert. I die before I open, and the waves of desert breeze blow my petals away.” She wasn’t sure of her age but thought she was 17. “Because I am a girl, no one knows my birthday,” she said.
Meena lives in Gereshk, a town of 50,000 people in Helmand, the largest of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. Helmand has struggled with the double burden of being one of the world’s largest opium producers and an insurgent stronghold. Meena’s father pulled her out of school four years ago after gunmen kidnapped one of her classmates. Now she stays home, cooks, cleans and teaches herself to write poetry in secret. Poems are the only form of education to which she has access. She doesn’t meet outsiders face to face.
“I can’t say any poems in front of my brothers,” she said. Love poems would be seen by them as proof of an illicit relationship, for which Meena could be beaten or even killed. “I wish I had the opportunities that girls do in Kabul,” she went on. “I want to write about what’s wrong in my country.” Meena gulped. She was trying not to cry. On the other end of the line, Amail, who is prone to both compassion and drama, began to weep with her. Tears mixed with kohl dripped onto the page of the spiral notebook in which Amail was writing down Meena’s verses. Meena recited a Pashtun folk poem called a landai:
“My pains grow as my life dwindles,
INVITATION
BOOK LAUNCH – www.blaupause-books.com
You are invited to the launch of:
– In the Light of Bridges – Hamburg Fragments by Terry McDonagh
– Take me to your Umlauts by David Bergmann
On Thursday April 26th at 7pm
In Hamburg Welcome Center, Alter Wall 11, Hamburg.
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