Book review: Albert Camus’s “L’Etranger”

November 24, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

The Outsider? The Foreigner? The Stranger? One would expect more consensus regarding the translation of the title work of a Nobel prize-winning author. However, just the title of Albert Camus’s 1942 classic novel, L’Etranger, provokes reflection, as does every page of his terse prose

Mexican rajma chawal

November 21, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I mean, I assume you’ve already gotten rid of all the other aluminium in the kitchen, right? Right??

How to kill Dracula

October 15, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Garlic at your own risk It has enough garlic to kill Dracula. There should be no reason that pasta aglio e olio couldn’t kill a sinusitis, right? That’s why it was part of my battle plan for the day after I arrived back home, a trip that required two excruciating intercontinental flights. Besides, why else […]

The Sabarmati Ashram

October 13, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

by Ricky Toledano When not in jail or walking around to unite India, this is where the Great Soul lived, founding the SATYAGRAHA movement, the unwaivering, unshakable commitment to Truth: that which cannot be defeated; that which is invincible. I held back tears when I saw his desk, the place where Gandhi sat, writing and […]

The picture I didn’t take

October 9, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Others might have jumped at the chance to capture her. I do not judge them; it’s just that I simply couldn’t.

Walking the Old City

October 7, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Gujarat has been at the crossroads of civilizations for longer than memory. Its most iconic city, Ahmedabad, still holds its unique architectural mix of Jainism, Hinduism and Islam. The comparison was inevitable: the old city was much cleaner and more preserved than my beloved Chandni Chowk in Delhi. Then there was the woodwork and the […]

The Climate Summit

September 20, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Brazil and the world at the 75th UN General Assembly

The Carnival Seamstress

September 18, 2019.Reading time 14 minutes.

Behind the seams of Rio de Janeiro’s spectacular festival by Soledad Dominguez | translated by Ricky Toledano Monica has not slept at home since January 28. And it is most likely that she will not return to her husband and her youngest son until March 4, the day when the Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school will […]

An obstacle removed at the right time / Um obstáculo removido na hora certa

September 2, 2019.Reading time 19 minutes.

The Lord of Obstacles places and removes them in exactly the right moment.

Words matter

August 11, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Although on the team of Words Matter, I decided to look at some numbers. by Ricky Toledano I threw myself on the floor of my house when the machine gunfire started – once – in an instinctive reaction, because I immediately knew from the thunder around me, and the whistling of the bullets through the […]