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For 70 years, the Gurkha Contingent has been Singapore's elite guard and counter-terrorism force. To ensure their neutrality, they live in their own compound in Mount Vernon Camp, which caters to their housing, necessities, and recreation. Gurkha children are born and raised in Singapore, with the full knowledge that they will one day be repatriated from the country they grew up in. So what is it like growing up as the child of a Gurkha?

One of the most peaceful spots in Singapore is hidden in plain sight. On Google maps, it's listed as "Shuang Long Shan Wu Shu Ancestral Hall", but a quick search reveals it's also known as "Shuang Long Shan Cemetery", "Yin Foh Kuan Hakka Cemetery" or "Holland Close Graveyard". Meet Teo Ee Koon, who has been manning the cemetery since 1982 with his father, who passed away in 2007.

Born into a clan of transitional characters, dyed-in-the-wool interculturalist Johannes Chudoba invites listeners to recognize the life lessons of the pre- and postwar generations. Following a frenzy of high-intensity challenges in conflict and transition countries for three decades, Chudoba stepped back and slowed down to spend time with his mother in the final months of her life, and to capture the essence of intergenerational learning in his family.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'प्रतापरावांचे बलिदान' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'साल्हेरवरील आक्रमण' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

भारतीय समाजाचे वैचारिक भरणपोषण आपले संत, ऋषीमुनी आणि महापुरुषांनी केले आहे. त्यांनी आपल्या आचरणातून समाजापुढे महान आदर्श उभे केले. त्यांची चरित्रे ही कायमच समाजाला स्फूर्ति देत असतात, नैतिक आचरणाची शिकवण देत असतात. 'रामायण' या महाकाव्यातून महर्षी वाल्मीकींनी प्रभू श्रीराम आणि सीता यांचे उदात्त जीवन आणि कार्य यांचे चित्रण केले आहे. रामायण हे महाकाव्य जोपर्यंत सूर्य, चंद्र आहेत तोपर्यंत या जगात वाचले, सांगितले जाणार आहे. त्याचे रचनाकार महर्षी वाल्मीकींचे हे लघुचरीत्र श्रोत्यांना त्यांच्या लेखनाची कथा सांगेल.

Lannah grew up in the Outback in Australia. Her life was filled with the usual and sometimes not so usual childhood joys, frustrations and adventures. The difficulties and challenges made her what she is today, an accomplished professional and mother of 2 wonderful daughters. This is her story. Lannah says: To acknowledge anyone for the writing of this book is something I am unsure about. I don’t really know who to acknowledge, or, indeed, if anyone should be.

When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, Pike sought to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. But she arrived in La Paz with trepidation as well as excitement, 'knowing I followed in the footsteps of Western colonizers and missionaries who had also claimed they were there to help.'

Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.

Esta frase resume la mezcla de estallido sensorial y derrumbe psicológico que desbordó al periodista Abraham Jiménez Enoa después de exiliarse en 2022 en Barcelona. Todo era confuso, acelerado, de una voluptuosidad material demente («Bienvenido, aquí se satisface el síndrome de la compulsión», leyó a la entrada de una tienda) y, además, el racismo estructural que había conocido en la isla se transformaba ahora en una xenofobia explícita y hostil de miradas, insultos y desconfianzas.