• India – a train disaster hints at a coming upheaval

    India – a train disaster hints at a coming upheaval
    India’s worst train crash this century, with three trains colliding due to signal failure, has left nearly 300 dead and almost 1000 injured. This kind of tragedy is not as commonplace as it once was with heavy government investment in modernization in recent years which cut rails deaths to zero in the two years up to 2021, a staggering improvement on what went before.  The crash happened on 2 June 2023 at 7pm in Odisha state when the massively strong and can-be-high-risk Mars oppositi
  • Noel Coward – playing his part to perfection

    Noel Coward – playing his part to perfection
    The epitome of English upper class chic and light-hearted devil-may-care wit, Noel Coward grew up in relative poverty and left school at nine to become a child performer. Prolific and versatile, he exuded effortless charm, acid wit and lauded a life of dilettante indulgence, while working like a Trojan writing 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his plays such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter, and Blithe Spirit, are still in the regular theatre repertoire. He
  • Kaija Saariaho – soaring talent and a caring heart

    Kaija Saariaho – soaring  talent and a caring heart
    Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, voted the world’s greatest living composer in a 2019 survey by BBC Music Magazine, has died aged 70 of brain cancer.Her ‘sinuously alluring’ music was acclaimed for its sparkling beauty – meditative, mystical and complex, often informed by the sound of the wind, footsteps in the snow or the rush of waves. She wrote concertos as well as opera scores.  Her opera Innocence, based around the legacy of a school shooting, won plaudits when

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