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Today, Roza Otunbaeva has been inauguration as President of Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan has had a traumatic few months. In April there was a second revolution; President Bakiyev fled the country. In recent weeks there has been terrible violence in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad; thousands have fled as refugees. There is much in our news about a [...] This the last in my series of posts about our trip to Bangladesh. My visit to Jheelpur slum gave me much to think about, a new perspective on how some people live. After a couple of days in Dhaka I became very aware of a desperately poor underclass. There is no welfare state so beggars tap at [...] For those interested in seeing more of Bangladesh, Simon Reeve travelled through there on his journey around the Tropic of Cancer. The episode was shown tonight on BBC 2 but is available on iplayer. For me, having not left Dhaka when I visited, it was great to see the vast rivers and people fishing them using [...] In March 2005 I stood in Ala Too Square in Bishkek and watched angry young men climb over the fence and storm the presidential White House, causing regime change in Kyrgyzstan. My husband M was furious – he was back in our flat with baby T and had seen me on CNN. “You’re a mother now” he [...] Suzanne Kamata is the editor of Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering. This is a thought-provoking anthology written by mothers from across the world (including me!) which I reviewed on this blog in May. Suzanne is a fascinating person. She lives in rural Japan with her Japanese husband and bicultural twins and writes to “keep [...] Like all households we get a lot of mail shots pushed through the door; advertisements for carpet cleaning, conservatories and pleas for money from various charities. I am guilty of gathering it all up and shoving it in the recycling bin. I have no compunction about the conservatories but I’m sure that some of the [...] Sweating on the cross trainer in the gym I noticed a headline about Kyrgyzstan scrolling across the bottom of the Sky News screen. Sadly it was not a positive one; an England football fan had been shot in the leg. Great, I thought, now news channels will be negative about Kyrgyzstan. Having lived there for three [...] I was very excited to learn that Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering, in which I have a chapter, has won recognition at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It has been named winner in the Parenting and Anthology categories and is third place Grand Prize winner in the nonfiction category. This is an [...] When Revolution Baby was published I worked hard at marketing, thinking, naively, I could get it all done before Baby 3 was born. I hadn’t appreciated the effect of momentum and how one feature would lead to another. This is how I’ve been introduced to some fantastic projects, and ended up writing much more often [...] I was supposed to go to the gym this evening but instead felt I had to stay in and write this blog. I’m sure you’re thinking “yeah right, good excuse for being lazy”. But there is a reason deeper than lethargy. This afternoon I had tea with Bishop Alphonse and his wife Evelyne from Nebbi Diocese [...] |
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