When do we become adults? What does it mean to grow up? And what are the experiences that propel us forward — or keep us stuck?These are the questions that journalist Moya Sarner sets out to answer as she begins training as a psychotherapist. But as she delves further into her own mind and others’, she soon realises that growing up is far from the linear process we imagine it to be. So begi…
Nama Pramoedya Ananta Toer yang besar tentulah terbentuk karena karya-karyanya yang juga diakui oleh dunia. Roman “Bumi manusia” adalah bagian pertama dari Tetralogi Buru. Pram menulisnya di kamp kerjapaksa tanpa proses hukum pengadilan di pulau Buru. Roman ini bersetting di Surabaya pada awal abad 19, saat dimana Hindia Belanda berdiri. Tokoh utamanya adalah Minke, seorang keturunan pri…
Kartini (diam-diam) sudah melakukan pemberontakan atas nilai-nilai kebudayaan Jawa yang feodalistik. Tentu saja ini simpulan yang mengagetkan. Bukan apa-apa, masalahnya pemahaman kita terhadap Kartini memang amat terbatas, jika tidak disebut dangkal, atau bahkan reduksionistik: Kartini adalah pelopor emansipasi perempuan. Titik. Simak pula ritus yang diadakan tiap 21 April sebagai selebrasi kel…
The author is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Chandernagore Government College, West Bengal, India. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jadavpur University in 2014 and is a Gold medallist in her M.A. programme from the same university. She has also served as an instructor of German language at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata and translated…
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to become the first female elected head of state in Africa’s history. Madame President is the inspiring, often heartbreaking story of Sirleaf’s evolution from an ordinary Liberian mother of four boys to international banking execut…
A practical guide to dealing with the future based on lesson from the past