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While a conflict of interest, be it in life or in fiction, can bring about self-introspection, strange though it may seem, a casual encounter could lead to self-discovery. So it happened with me in the wake of my rebuff to a dogged tempter, “money is not my weakness” and his “what is your weakness” repartee; for the record, either I had been a straight purchase officer or a strict loss assessor, occupations amenable to monetary mischief. However, the idea of this article is not to gloat over my uprightness but to present the genesis of my attitude to money and the vicissitudes of my life as a subject matter for possible research. But the caveat is that much of my growing up that...

Some life lessons are meant to be learnt the hard way. You drown in misery, anxiety and loads of stress concerning questions about your own values and stand in life.What I was living with, was much heavily dependant on the people I rely for every action or move I made. My inner peace was shattered, I queried my own discomforts, I understood my own values through harshness, I blamed others for what I was doing; this part of me was my favourite human.My heart always quenched for peace – understanding unuttered words, longing for appreciation, relying heavily on emotions, and the slightest of comfort.Until the realisation creeped in, for who I was, what I had become and most importantly why.Y...

TheCinemaholic writer Naman Shrestha published a powerful Article about John "Divine G" Whitfield on July 9, 2024 sharing with world Divine G's journey leading up to the production of the smash hit movie Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo (as Divine G), Paul Raci, Sharon Washington, and a cast of formerly incarcerated individuals. The Article can be read at:

https://thecinemaholic.com/john-divine-g-whitfield/

Whenever I look at my body of multi-genre work in English, the underlying human possibility intrigues me no end, and why not for my mother tongue Telugu, touted as the Italian of the East, has no linguistic connection with it whatsoever.To start with, I was born into a land-owning family in Kothalanka, a remote Indian village, of Andhra Pradesh to be precise that is after the British had folded their colonial tents from the sub-continent, but much before the rural education mechanism was geared up therein. It was thus the circumstances of my birth enabled me to escape from the tiresome chores of primary schooling till I had a nine-year fill of an unbridled childhood, embellished by village p...

A life-size marble statue of Antinous was unearthed, literally, in Delphi on 13 July 1894 – 130 years ago – by a team from the École française d'Athènes. (Fun fact: Antinous died in the year A.D. 130) To the archaeological team's stupefaction, it was found upright and almost intact, pedestal included. How was this possible?The most plausible explanation for the state in which the statue remained for centuries seems to me to be this: it was not left there to endure the ravages of time, but was deliberately buried. Hidden, in a word. Four points make me lean towards this hypothesis.1. To believe the statue was left to the ravages of time would mean believing that the statue would have b...