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Along the Coast of Kovalam: On Fishing, Continuity, and Quiet Symbiosis.

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Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                            Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. Along the coast at Kovalam (India), fishing is not an industry so much as a rhythm—an inherited cadence that has outlasted empires, religions, and the modern impatience with anything that does not scale. Each morning, the boats return not as symbols of labour but as punctuation marks in a sentence that has been written and rewritten for centuries. The sea gives, the shore receives, and life adjusts itself—quietly, persistently—to the terms of that exchange. As the early morning passes boats steadily arrive reveiling their nights catch. People wait and buy straight from the fishermen. Kovalam January 2026. The abundance of fish in these waters has lo...
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Blue Poles: A Nation, a Painting, and the Storm It Never Meant to Cause

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Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                           Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung There are moments in a nation’s cultural life when an artwork, through no intention of its own, becomes a lightning rod for anxieties that run much deeper than paint on canvas. Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles was one such catalyst. When the Whitlam government bought the painting in 1973 for the then-astonishing sum of $1.3 million, the Australian public reacted as if a great moral trespass had been committed. Ministers defended it, cartoonists mocked it, and the newspapers spoke of extravagance, waste, and elitism — all directed at a work whose purpose was far removed from the political theatre in which it suddenly found itself.         ...
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