Oratio Dominica comes from Luke 11:2-4  Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, uphold the holiness of your name.  Bring in your kingdom.  Give us the bread we need for today.  Forgive us our sins,  for we also forgive everyone…

(I wrote this a good few years ago, it was meant as a bit of fun and exploration, not as any hint towards what was known as the battle between the sexes. I had never heard of identity politics then,…

In the 16th Century, a Mughal Emperor named Akbar founded a beautiful city named Fatehpur Sikri. The buildings, made of red sandstone so that the city famously glows pink, were stunning examples of architecture, designed to emulate the glories of…

Note left for me by my lovely husband this morning. Seriously, like, what the…… (I usually light the stove using twigs I gather from under the trees outside but he says….and I will write it exactly as is, but in…

Saturnalius is a 7 day festival running from the 17th (today) to the 23rd of December. It was in honour of Saturn, the God of seed and sowing (and much more). (The Phrygian ‘liberty cap’, from Phrygia, the Balkans and…

(Art by Android Jones) Right at the time of his birth Kali carried an Upaasthi (a small bone) and his entire body complexion was sooty and dark. This huge-being, with a terrible tongue and an obnoxious smell about his entire…

Located on 10,000 square miles in a rocky, barren, mountainous place in the North West of Saudi Arabia and spanning territory in Jordan and Egypt, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud proposes to build the city of the future – and…

Multiply the grievance groupings to infinity, fractionate, separating the whole into competing parts, differentiate by colour, gender, orientation, identification, intersecting at useful flash points, angles, but never divisible to One. The Holy Individual. Wrong answer. * Add further outrage. Calculate…

  She drew open the gate of the compound and the stooped monk came in. His step was slow and shuffling, as if his journey was long. Following in his wake were four attendants, dressed in similar robes, but somehow…