Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake
Boy
in Favourites, India
Real Lovers Never Lie, Jakarta Selatan
in Indonesia
Al Jazeera has a story on 'the flowers of the street', three street buskers in Jakarta. The film Jalanan won the best documentary award at the largest Asian film festival in South Korea.
Boy, Jakarta
in Indonesia
The Act of Killing should have won the Best Documentary at the Oscars but lost out to continuing ignorance of Indonesia & its history in the west. There is also a need to examine the US & western powers role & encouragement in the policies leading to the Indonesian killings in the mid 1960s.
The Lowy Interpreter blog has a good piece on the impact of The Act of Killing in Indonesia.
Young Boy, Jakarta Selatan
in Indonesia
At Chinese New Year, Papa Eko and I went for a walk to the fish farms near his house in Cipedak and met this young man outside the community centre.