Tag: Took

For me, it was at the age of ten on board a very rickety Garuda Airline to Medan, Indonesia and we saw the beautiful Lake Toba. I recall we had a wonderful tour guide and she told us Indonesians added a spoonful of butter to their coffee. I realise we already did this as we dunk our buttered toast i...

WASHINGTON — For the first time in 234 years, the American president’s State of the Union Address (SOTU) praised cannabis reform efforts, reminding Americans the leader up for reelection believes “No one should be jailed just for using or possessing marijuana.” During...

10 years ago today, I got the worst (and best) birthday gift of my life. I dropped acid with my friends and spiraled into existential confusion and panic (colloquially known as a “bad trip”). Fast forward 4 months later, I was enjoying some quality time with the family until a whisper of...

A lot of this comes down to how the art market functioned in the workshop and guild system. In the early modern period (by this I mean roughly the 15th-17th centuries, from the Renaissance through the Baroque) there were certain market conditions that impacted who would become well known as an artis...

The distinction I am making here should help understand why practitioners of a religion can bring their religion to others, forcefully convert them to that religion, whilst NOT living out the ideals and morality of the said religion themselves. It was this distinction that made Mahatma Gandhi say ...