Nearly two centuries after it was first published in 1817, The History of Java by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, thanks to Narasi, an independent publishing company based in Yogjakarta, is finally brought out in Indonesian language. The Indonesian version of The History of Java is a doorstopper at 904 pages, an agreeable hardbound single volume [...]
In modern-day estimate, a person’s level of intelligence is measured by h/her worth in the bank. By this estimation, Bill Gates is the most intelligent person on the planet by any category. Larry Ellison of the Oracle fortune is more intelligent than Donald Trump. Tiger Woods is the most intelligent person in the world of [...]
ACT 1 Scene One. Midnight. At the studio. The Maestro, with a white singlet on, wrapped round in sarong, stands before a blank canvas, staring hard. A paint brush in one hand and in another a cigar, whose smoke curls up and evaporates into the cone of light that is cast down from an over-hanging [...]
The Snake Charmer
A Life and Death In Pursuit of Knowledge
By Jamie James
Hyperion
260
The fascination with nature’s most unpredictable beasts has often persuaded some people that they are so well equipped with mastery of their subjects to be in any peril. We have seen, however, with the recent deaths of Steve Irwin, the wild life expert, who [...]
The Romance of K’tut Tantri And Indonesia
By Timothy Lindsey
Equinox
347
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. This is the inscription on the opening page of Gabrielle Garcia Marquez’s autobiography Living To Tell the Tale. It was published in 2003. In 1994, Timothy [...]
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