Culture and Arts Notebook

TRADITIONAL CRAFTS         By B C Kiran Gudigar or Gudigara are craftsmen residing in the state of Karnataka, India. Their traditional profession was to build temples and places of worship. The skills were passed on only in…

MEDIA         as reported by Khandaker Himel Rozina Islam, a senior reporter of Prothom Alo, one of the country’s leading Bengali-language daily newspapers, was detained for more than five hours in a room inside the Bangladesh Secretariat…

POEM         Love (Life)’s an open corridor to Future suspended in space pitching like a drunken boat It’s transparent walled no ceiling, no floor with floating signs in strange languages fading in and fading out It’s fun…

FEATURE         All it took was one cart on a sidewalk filled with vegetables, fruits, rice, eggs, canned food, and other stuff to prevent or fight the onslaught of covid-19. And the scribbled message in Pilipino on…

POEM         Let us build a living space Amidst the barbed wire and rusting fences. Here, from its steel embrace Emerge from ancient sleep Dreams that survive the morning light.   Here, words interlace Spoken from the…

POEM         by Rem Tanauan Though I have not gone out of the house yet, the golden sun now enters the window. It gets through hazy jalousie and filtered by yellow curtain. It blends this twilight, a…

NON-VIOLENT CULTURE         The last month of April marked the third year of the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula which was signed in April 2018 by the two country leaders. To…

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay   POEM         by Perfecto Caparas I know there are many, many mothers Born of our beloved sacred Earth Mother Nurturers Lovers Life harbingers You my mother Are the only one Who…

FEATURE         Thirteen months after the Covid-19 outbreak in the Philippines and as cases surged, a new kind of morning greeted a middle-class neighborhood in Teachers Village, Quezon City that April 14 which pleasantly surprised a mix…

SPIRITUALITY           As part of the series on Ramadan amidst the co-vid 19 pandemic, Pressenza interviewed Mohammad Nazrul Islam Jashim. Mohammad is currently the country representative of the Community for Human Development. An international socio-cultural organization…