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Abandoned by fathers, betrayed by lovers

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Braithwaite’s Cursed Daughters is about intergenerational trauma and female kinship. The Falodun family have been cursed for generations, since an ancestor’s affair with a married man provoked the vengeful wife to declare that the woman and her female descendants would never prosper in love: “men will be like water in their palms.”   Setting her story between 1994 and the present day, Braithwaite braids together the fates of three women bound by the curse. A young woman must shake off a family curse, and widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive … Continue reading Abandoned by fathers, betrayed by lovers

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Pursuit of truth from the other side of the camera

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Werner Herzog, the legendary filmmaker and author’s deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth- and how to find it in out “post-truth” era? We wade through the troubling realm of what we see and read, and wonder what AI might have in store for us. For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and non-fiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Herzog definitely goes beyond the appearance of what is … Continue reading Pursuit of truth from the other side of the camera

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HOSPITALITY – the act of being friendly and welcoming to visitors

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Whether you are a business person or someone browsing to  learn about and garner new technology or takes on making hotel stays as more and more of an exciting and comforting experience, The Independent Hotel Show at London, Olympia is a great event.  After the show’s two day show, staged close to buzzing Kensington High Street,  London, I have gathered information which should be of interest to our readers  with contact details if you wish to research my findings for your own enjoyment and information. Winning Moves – winningmoves.co.uk selling Monopoly and card games.  Monopoly is available in a variety of genres including a Ritz Hotel version. … Continue reading HOSPITALITY – the act of being friendly and welcoming to visitors

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Accidental billionaire

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Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, one of the most extraordinary brands in the corporate world, the rare company that is driven by environmental activism instead of cutthroat capitalism. Patagonia founded in 1973, a US clothing company trailing associations of rugged outdoor pursuits, posting sales of more than $1billion a year. Chouinard distrustful of capitalism, even as he engaged in it, investment bankers co-opted the garments into their uniforms, sometime wearing under their suit jackets or blazers. The company has distinguished itself as a singular beacon for socially responsible business, the rare company that can legitimately claim to be doing its … Continue reading Accidental billionaire

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Cuba: Paralysed and immersed in a fake war “A city of many stray sadness”

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1989-born Carlos Manuel Alvarez, whose ideals of the Cuban revolution turned sour. His  novel The Fallen (2019) painted a portrait of family life in rural Cuba, where revolutionary dreams are dead, freedoms are curtailed, and opportunities are scarce.  False War is sequel published in Spanish in 2021, and now translated by Natsha Wimmer examines the destinies of some of those Cubans who have fled the embattled island. The common themes of Cuban migrants in Miami, New York, Mexico City, Paris and Berlin, their loss and longing of lives uprooted and grafted elsewhere, borne on oceanic currents of escape and return. The … Continue reading Cuba: Paralysed and immersed in a fake war “A city of many stray sadness”

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Know your hatred and envy to avoid self-deceptions for successful intimacy

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Love’s Labour is a collection of psychoanalysis case studies, is long awaited follow-up of American-born, London-based, Stephen Grosz’s bestselling debut of 2013, The Examined Life,  a series of slender psychoanalytic case histories, which opened the world of the consulting room with vividness.  In Love’s Labour, Grosz, gives us insight into the twists and turns of the patient’s inner lives. The woman who is horrified to find her husband having an affair eventually turns out to have a secret gladness: It’s a get-out-of-jail free card she can now legitimately divorce. After deeper exploration, these patients turn out to be Russian dolls, with … Continue reading Know your hatred and envy to avoid self-deceptions for successful intimacy

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Dreams matter

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Lionel Richie  Truly is a candid memoir, as he revisits hilarious and harrowing events that seek to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don’t matter. Lionel’s unlikely success stories- from a shy, tragically late bloomer to his dramatic transformation into a world-class entertainer and composer of love songs that have played as the soundtrack of our lives. Lionel’s early childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he grew up on its university campus during the heyday of Civil Rights movement to adventures as a member of The Commodores, to coming-of-age in Harlem where that band took off, to culture shock … Continue reading Dreams matter

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Life outside a rigid hierarchy, amid tradition and modernity

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Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her previous novels Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard (1998), set in India of her childhood- born in Delhi, The Inheritance of Loss which won the 2006 Booker Prize.  This tale is about Sonia Shah and Sunny Bhatia, whose once-wealthy families connected through their grandparents, are part of the first generation of young Indians to experience migration, travel and life outside a rigid hierarchy, caught in between tradition and modernity, between pleasing parents and pleasing themselves. They fall in love, but are soon parted by self-doubt, pride … Continue reading Life outside a rigid hierarchy, amid tradition and modernity

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India defeat Pakistan by five wickets in Asia Cup final

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Twenty20 International Asia Cup at Dubai International Stadium, Dubai India Vs Pakistan Pakistan 146 ao off 19.1 ov, Farhan 57 off 38, 5 fours, 3 sixes, Fakhar 46 off 35, 2 fours, 2 sixes, Yadav 4-30, Bumrah 2-25, Chakravarthy 2-30, Patel 2-26. India 150-5 off 19.4 ov, Tilak 69 off 53, 3 fours, 4 fours, Dube 33 off 22, 2 fours, 2 sixes, Faheem 3-29, Abrar 1-29, Shaheen 1-20. India win by 5 wickets. Tilak Varma scored an amazing unbeaten innings of 69 runs off 53 balls including four sixes and three fours, to steer India to five-wicket victory over … Continue reading India defeat Pakistan by five wickets in Asia Cup final

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Game of Cat and Mouse

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Two women, an office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can’t be taken back. Dawn Schiff works as an accountant, and never says the right thing. She has no friends, and is always at her office desk precisely at 8:45am. One morning, she doesn’t show up to the office, her co-worker Natalie Farrell- beautiful, popular, top sales representative for five years running is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything. It turns out Dawn wasn’t just an awkward outsider- she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn … Continue reading Game of Cat and Mouse