This improbable country is blessed with surreal beauty but has a painful history of colonialism and apartheid. Miraculously, it has retained its innocence and sweetness and is the only nation which has the conservation and protection of its natural heritage written in its constitution.
Read MoreThe fiery Herero tribe of southern Namibia, along with the Nama, rebelled against their German oppressors during 1904-1907.
Read MoreWhat seemed like an innocuous Q&A with Julie Chan for a podcast for my friends at Mouth Media Network turned into a reflection on the long, strange trip around the world I have been on recently, and the more arduous journey of self-disruption.
Read MoreHonored to be featured as one of the Top 20 Asian Influencers and Thought Leaders by career website FindSpark…
Read MoreIn this photo, I am getting “anointed” by my European friends at the end of three adrenalized days at the Elevate Festival in Graz, the annual hard-core gathering of activists, musicians and artists in this sweet little Austrian city at the foot of the Alps.
Read MoreOn my first trip to Austria, I arrived from rain-drenched Paris to snow-covered Graz and of course KLM lost my bag so I’ve been walking around jetlagged, surrounded by beauty but freezing my ass and in the same outfit for 3 days.
Read MoreThe media is still robust in the USA and one of the women I greatly admire on TV is Joy Reid, host of AM Joy on MSNBC.
Read More(The Magical Music of “Shithole” Countries that Our President and Other Clueless Americans Have Not Heard and Never Should)
Read MoreYesterday morning around 8 am, not even 24 hours after a terrorist gleefully killed eight innocent people and injured many others, my teenage daughter reached her school near Cooper Union to see police swarming around a horrific crime scene right outside the main entrance.
Read MoreMomentarily sad to leave this extraordinary place. While Indonesia has its troubles like any other country, it also has some of the last remaining pieces of heaven on earth.
Read MoreBali seems like a lost paradise for an infinite number of reasons including its stark contrast to the crudeness and plasticity of some other Asian cities and the instant pleasure and sugar high of the West.
Read More"Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you"
Spent a great morning speaking to the students and faculty of the Singhania School in Kanpur. Some of the smartest and most curious students I have engaged with.
Read MoreAfter 21 planes, 7 trains, 18 taxis and 55 variations of sky I'm back to the slow magic infuriating inequity, illogical reality stranger than any fiction, the too-loud airport music with its many flavors of the same endless nightmare Bollywood-lite song…
Read MoreAntoine is everything good about Corsica- a lover of humanity who thinks the plants he distills wine from are alive, a patriot who believes in peace and tolerance and gay rights and rock n roll, and that the Greek brought wine to his country in 500 BC.
Read MoreFortunate to listen to a beloved singer of traditional Corsican music, the 85 year old Antoine Ciosi, recording a new track in a studio near Ajaccio. Delivered in a melodic, all-encompassing boom, he rails against the plastic modernization threatening the Corsican way of life. Magic.
— at La Source
Read MoreOn the highway to Ajaccio, the skeletons of trees remain from a fire accidentally started by the French Military during exercises. Black, bare and torched by sorrow, they still stand resolutely like Japanese widows...
Read MoreOnce in a while, you just have to laugh at the craziness of it all. I wanted a selfie with my favorite artist, the great Marina Abramovic ...
Read MoreHumbling to see a full house and an appreciative audience take home my message of inclusion, openness and egalitarianism at TEDx Cannes.
Read MoreIt's always a joy to return to the place I spent my best 12 years in, but I am particularly inspired by the current Principal, Carlyle McFarland, (next to me), who has made La Martiniere College one of the top schools in India and comparable to the best in the world.
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