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Asian Books Blog: January 2015
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Thursday, 29 January 2015. Indie Spotlight: Professor Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. 160;is our monthly column on self-publishing. Here, Raelee Chapman. Prolific indie author Professor Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, from the Cultural Centre, University of Malaya. 160; used Partridge Publishing Singapore, an imprint of Author Solutions LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, to publish two works on culture/theatre and three creative literary works in 2014 alone. I asked him about his play The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great.
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Ione traveller: December 2008
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Monday, December 22, 2008. The Genius of Mirza Ghalib. Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, known to posterity as Mirza Ghalib, (Ghalib being a nom de plume) is the greatest of all South Asian Urdu and Persian. Classical poets. A prolific writer,. Ghalib was born on 27 December 1797 in. On February 15 1869. And, to some extent,. Were centres of Islamic culture in northern. Due to developments in the en...
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Ione traveller: February 2009
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Encounters with Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). From my earliest peregrinations into literature, apart from western works that were required reading, two Asian titles have remained fresh in my mind since my impressionable school days: Rabindranath Tagore’s ’s Gitanjali. English version introduced by. WB Yeats, and Khalil Gibran’s Tears and Laughter. Many other T...
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Ione traveller: The Mamak Booksellers of Macalister Road, Penang
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Saturday, February 21, 2009. The Mamak Booksellers of Macalister Road, Penang. Recently a bookseller, Nahul Meera, also known as Nagore Meera, passed away in. A town in Tamil Nadu, India, located approximately 4 km north of Nagapattinam, is famous for a prominent Muslim shrine ( dargah. One of India’s most important, dedicated to the 16. During the annual 14-day feast ( urs. 8217;s Tamil com...
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Ione traveller: September 2009
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Thursday, September 3, 2009. On the Current Malaysian-Indonesian Conflict on Cultural Forms. Recent weeks and months have seen Malaysia and Indonesia locked in argument on the ownership of certain traditional performing arts forms: the shadow play ( wayang kulit. Dance, an issue quickly resolved due to its relative lack of complexity. In fact, came into Malaysia from Indonesia, while mak yong.
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Ione traveller: Response to Rawlings: Frowning upon Wayang
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Response to Rawlings: Frowning upon Wayang. The following is an expanded version of my response to Rawlings’ first question. Discussion regarding my own research in traditional Malay theatre will appear as a separate piece. The three theatre forms mentioned, and yet others, are still active outside their current Malaysian locations with minor variations or adaptat...
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Ione traveller: April 2009
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Sunday, April 5, 2009. UNESCO WORLD POETRY DAY 2009 IN PENANG. On March 21 this year something very special happened in Penang. This was the first ever celebration of UNESCO's World Poetry Day in that State. In case there are readers not familiar with what this is all about, it may be worthwhile quoting a brief passage from Wikipedia. Anyone who has seen/heard a single blind selampit. Artist...
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Ione traveller: UNESCO WORLD POETRY DAY 2009 IN PENANG
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Sunday, April 5, 2009. UNESCO WORLD POETRY DAY 2009 IN PENANG. On March 21 this year something very special happened in Penang. This was the first ever celebration of UNESCO's World Poetry Day in that State. In case there are readers not familiar with what this is all about, it may be worthwhile quoting a brief passage from Wikipedia. Anyone who has seen/heard a single blind selampit. Artist...
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Ione traveller: ASEAN Puppetry Association
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Saturday, January 17, 2009. The ASEAN Puppetry Association was established in December 2006 following an initiative taken by the Indonesian Wayang Secretariat (SENAWANGI). And other cultural bodies in. On the occasion of the Inaugural meeting in. There was a festival featuring performances from all ASEAN countries with the exception of. Audience, mostly unacquainted with. 8217;s several waya...
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Ione traveller: Mak Yong: Yet another Malay Dilemma
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This is essentially a culture blog focused on themes of cultural interest, in a liberal sense, for their own sake. Friday, May 8, 2009. Mak Yong: Yet another Malay Dilemma. I remember Mubin Sheppard telling me several decades ago that mak yong will never die; that it will live for ever. He saw magic in it, but did not refer to what would keep it going. In all likelihood it was a pious wish. Mak yong has become urbanized and is better known outside Kelantan than it was before. Considerably transformed,.
