Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu IdentityWhen European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But it quickly became clear that Hindu idolatry was far more layered and complex than European stereotypes allowed, surprisingly even sharing certain impulses

strangeness and estrangement

Drawing on the latest quantitative theories in economic research

and by the culture of self-help

Fosse traces his relationship to writing and celebrates the capacity of language to embrace the mystery

Fotoistiwa: Or The Curious Case of Malaysian Weather – a photozine by Adam Taufiq Suharto

Sekadar abjad yang tumpah tanpa niat dari sarat akal menjadi susun rasa

meticulous detail

the creative process

After the Israeli army bombed his house

best of all

in language that soars with beauty and power

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world