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Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album: On Suffering
As a work of 19th-century Russian literature, it is no surprise that the Sketches contains much suffering in it. In keeping with his role as an interested yet detached observer, Turgenev simply describes the plight of his characters “as it is”, appended with only a few heartfelt or ironic comments from himself, never going beyond…
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Turgenev’s Sketches from A Hunter’s Album: On The Value of Nature
This is part one of a series of posts exploring Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. I recently finished reading Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. It is a compilation of short “sketches” about Russian country life written by Turgenev whilst hunting on his mother’s estate in the early 19th-century, and was first…
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Core Purpose Thinking: Going Analog Part 1
This is hopefully the first in a series of essays that I want to write to explore “Core Purpose Thinking”. Table of Contents (because this is a long article) What is Core Purpose Thinking? This phrase just came into my head one day – I am sure it has been coined elsewhere before, so I…
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Video: Riding The Road to Heaven
My first effort putting together videos I took of our ride to the Rann of Kutch and the “Road to Heaven” – a three thousand kilometer round-trip starting from Delhi and ending in Gujarat through the historic desert state of Rajasthan.
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Motorcycling in Mallorca
I explored Mallorca for eight days on a Harley-Davidson Sportster 883, recording the places I visited with my Insta360, iPhone camera, and my humble Moleskine journal. It was a magical experience – to live like a wandering cowboy (or, I quote, “a character out of a Spaghetti Western” as I heard someone describe me at…
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