“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us mustContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)”
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RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)
“And in the university that is no easy task, for each one of you by virtue of you being here will be deluged by opportunities to misname yourselves. To forget who you are, to forget where your real interests lie. Make no mistake you will be courted; and nothing neutralizes creativity quicker than tokensim. ThatContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: THE TWO STRANGE MEN ALWAYS IN THE BACKGROUND
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: THE TWO STRANGE MEN ALWAYS IN THE BACKGROUND I noticed these two men early on with red flag aromas of gunpowder and those bulges under their arms were obviously guns in shoulder holsters. And that time I passedContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: THE TWO STRANGE MEN ALWAYS IN THE BACKGROUND”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part Two (Deepti Kapoor)
“And unlike the foreigners, who count every rupee, money is no object for this new group, money is nothing to be concerned with, there’s no virtue in penny pinching. They spend. They want their comforts: they make no romance out of misery. Word of their big spending and the high tips that go with itContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part Two (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part One (Deepti Kapoor)
“Sunny is the leader of a small band of revelers, Indians who live like the foreigners, still something of a rarity in those days. Who live like the foreigners, but who are not like the foreigners at all, four men and one woman, something dangerously new and bold; young, rich and glamorous Indians, not afraidContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part One (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The “Mercedes Killer” Pawn in the Hands of the Indian Upper Classes?
“Hundreds of inmates piling out of their cells to congratulate. He’s something of a celebrity. They’ve all heard about the “Mercedes Killer”. They want a closer look, judge for themselves his innocence or guilt, see how tough he is, how scared, decide where he could belong. It only takes a minute to recognize he’s oneContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The “Mercedes Killer” Pawn in the Hands of the Indian Upper Classes?”
RKS British Literature: Revenge of the White Man Colonialist (George Orwell)
“The rage was stewing in his body like bitter juice. He had brooded all night over what had happened. They had killed a white man, killed a white man, the bloody sods, the sneaking cowardly hounds. Oh, the swine, the swine, how they ought to be made to suffer for it. Why did we makeContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Revenge of the White Man Colonialist (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: MY PERSONAL BUSINESS MAY HAVE LED TO SOLVING THE CASE
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: MY PERSONAL BUSINESS MAY HAVE LED TO SOLVING THE CASE Well, you know as a dog there is no WC for me on the Eastern & Oriental Express. As I was not a suspect I was free toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: MY PERSONAL BUSINESS MAY HAVE LED TO SOLVING THE CASE”
RKS British Literature: Fast, Modern but Cheap English Girls (George Orwell)
“Mrs Lackersteen began with some general remarks, apropos of a photograph in the Tatler, about these fast modern girls who went about in beach pajamas and all that and made themselves so dreadfully cheap with men. A girl, Mrs Lackersteen said, should never make herself too cheap with a man; she should make herself-but theContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Fast, Modern but Cheap English Girls (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: The Youngest Son of a Peer: What a Cad! (George Orwell)
“Horsemanship and physical fitness were the only gods he knew. The stamp of hooves on the maidan, the strong poised feeling of his body, wedded centaur-like to the saddle, the polo-stick springy in his hand-these were his religion, the breath of his life. The Europeans in Burma-boozing, womanizing, yellow-faced loafers-made him physically sick when heContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The Youngest Son of a Peer: What a Cad! (George Orwell)”
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