I was born during the height of the Vietnam War in 1969. Today I remember nothing directly of it, although when the tanks from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam crashed through the gates of the Embassy of the United States of America in Saigon on Apr 30, 1975, I was…

(Himachal Pradesh) — Photos of the valley by Robert from England It was a 25-kilometre trek to get to Kheerganga and there was no road in those days. We set out in the morning from Manikaran following the course of the Parvati River. The river was wild, white water gushing…

Drugs and guns in Sweden — there is so much money linked to drug trafficking that those who earn see no problem in killing too. Two days ago a policeman was shot dead on an open street in Gothenburg, while he spoke to some local youth. It seems he was…

By 1803 possibly the richest and largest commercial organisation in the world, the East India Company was practically running the Indian subcontinent as a vast commercial concern. The company’s business model may sound familiar: “keeping supply and production costs low while maximising the price of goods sold in England. It…

(A CutUp in the Style of Burroughs and Gysin) The net of him is new and out of it Josef was sicker than Pilate, the author according to the wealth swords of the gladness business. Give me testament and crop not his loaves from broke birds to man actions, here is your parable and just later you three…

My premise in this essay is that performance art has a vocabulary and exists in sets of contexts. Just as poetry or painting have a common set of expressive features, techniques and contexts which are of course in a state of flux, developing and changing, often in response to innovation…

I arrived back in Australia on 7 March 1997 after 8 months traveling rough in India and Thailand. I visited my parents home in Queensland for the first time in a year but soon bad news came. A dear friend Alesia Lanham had finally lost her battle with the Black…

This current affairs piece from Australian TV last week is based on the short term. It is also somewhat ill-informed. There was no graduation for the final year high school students this year in Sweden, as depicted in the front image from the Australian TV program. Huge sections of…