Novels, Portals, and Politics

Another person who appears throughout our book is the writer Arundhati Roy. First coming to our attention from winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 with the fabulous novel God of Small Things, the Indian author Arundhati Roy has been a major political thinker and author who we have followed ever since. For us thinking mindfully about culture, […]

Socially-Engaged Museum Practice

When we talk about well-being we are in essence talking about a socially-engaged practice. We take the phrase ‘socially-engaged’ from the term ‘engaged buddhist’ as attributed to the Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạn; in that the aim is to collectively apply the teachings and practices in our lives to undo systems that create suffering and injustice. We must do these […]