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How could journeys transform our souls? American movie The Way, directed by Emilio Estevez in 2011, offers many insights, says MUHAMMED NOUSHAD in this review. Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters
SALMA YAQOOB is a British politician: the former leader of the Respect Party, the organizer of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and an elected city councillor in Birmingham. BirminghamPost described her as a “doughty fighter for Birmingham’s inner city communities”. A brilliant orator, she is a regular commentator on current affairs. She was recently in Kozhikode attending the 10th
Desert is an ever-alluring captivation. A note on a desert ride in the UAE. Life in its completeness; you can see it only in a desert, wrote Muhammed Asad, the legendary scholar and one of the most gifted travelers ever lived. To remember this now, I have not reached any real deep desert; just a few miles off-road, somewhere between
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the second edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale held between December 2014 and March 2015. Photographs by NAVAS MACHINGAL. Art opens a door: to the infinities of universe, to the obscurities of human innerness, to the possibilities of another world. Sometimes a spiritual ascension. An unexpected prophetic rescue from the imminent descent into the cave of evilness. Existing or nonexistent. Realistic
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD remembers the indescribable solace the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale of 2012 offered to the soul. Photographs by NIYAS HUSSAIN. In the classic tradition, every great work of art quintessentially offers a refuge in peace, and a profoundly personal and yet universal spirit. It digs its way into your deeper inner self in strange and unexpected ways. You feel like being