How to Approach Heaven
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure – so believed Albert Luthuli, the president of the African National Congress. A devout Christian, a man deeply committed to land and community, Luthuli saw the relationship between a nation and its ideals as founded on shared values, not the ingratiated construct that beleaguers […]
Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan Division
By Jon Soske The United Nation’s release of the agreement stipulating the “re-division” of India and Pakistan has shaken both countries. Signed by Gandhi, Jinnah and Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the document agrees to the redrawing of South Asia’s borders in the year 2014 on the basis of a more equitable division of economic and natural […]
‘Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The State’
Jon Soske struggles to pin down Hamid Parsani, the elusive, mercurial Iranian archaeologist, first for an interview, then in the interview. It took me nine months to contact Hamid Parsani, after an audience member approached me following a talk I gave in Berlin and suggested that I find a way to interview the notorious – […]