LOUVRE DIPLOMACY
Back home, in the “Land of Sand Castles”, and from my window I can see a silver/grey dome, on the edge of Saadiyat Island.
FRAGRANT HARBOUR
Hong Kong now looks unlike itself. Once celebrated as a freewheeling meeting place of East and West, its skyline still gleams, but its public sphere
THE INK ENDURES
In an era when words flicker across glass screens and
thumbs
dictate more than hands ever wrote, one might assume the fountain pen to have
THE ANT TRIBE
In August 2025, China’s official youth unemployment rate—the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds not in full-time education and actively seeking work—rose to
YELLOW DEEPAVALI
It’s Deepavali in Singapore: the glow of Little India can be seen long before one arrives. Strings of
neon peacocks
and lotus flowers stretch