In the 16^th century, the technological wonderment that is Tokyo, was a small castle town called Edo. In 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu, a militarily powerful shogun, established his feudal government there and so it became Japan’s political centre. In1868, during the Meiji Restoration, the emperor moved his capital from Kyoto to Edo. He renamed it Tokyo, the Eastern Capital.

Tokyo today is Tokyo: blazing violent electric stars (continue reading…)

Sunday Independent 2012 JanuaryCars howl; animated machines move, stop, disgorge people …… it is a Monday morning, the beginning of a week that may, or may not, be busy.

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Tunisia is situated at the northern most bulge of Africa, it thrusts out toward Sicily and marks the division between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. (continue reading…)

We drive; a generation, a movement, beating a heart. On the Road, Dean Moriarty, I am on the road, a road trip through Lesotho. … in no time at all we were back on the main highway and that night I saw the entire state of Nebraska unroll before my eyes  … an arrow road, sleeping towns, no traffic and the union pacific streamliner falling behind us in the moonlight … unreal with dream like rapidity as we roared ahead and talked … it was time for us to move on…. we are a seeking generation, we want god to show us his face. (continue reading…)

The Sunday Independent, January 2008

The young woman sits in the red dust, her legs are bounded by brass bangles, (continue reading…)