NEW YORK — Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. “Dennis Hopper said in ‘Easy Rider,’ ‘If you name it, I’ll throw rocks at it,’” Wright says. “My daughter saw the film last night and she said, ‘There’s so much of your humor in this.’” In “American Fiction,” Wright stars as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, …
At Ladakh’s Karsha Monastery, nestled in the Zanskar valley known for the famous Chadar trek, some 230 kilometres from Kargil, Buddhist monks are busy preparing for the annual monastic festival — Karsha Gustor. They are assembling their vibrant, silk attire and grand, emotive masks to be donned during theCham dance performance — the key highlight of the two-day celebrations beginning …
When we think of meditation, we often picture someone sitting as still as a statue, said Venerable Hui Cheng, a monk at Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple. “We are inspired to not hold onto things that are inherently fluid and transient in nature,” said Venerable Hui Cheng, who works with the temple’s department of social education and outreach. Venerable …
For someone who has made breaking records seem like an everyday affair, it is difficult to believe Avinash Sable once had doubts about whether he would ever be competitive within the country — at that point, the world stage was a dream too far. The start “We began his steeplechase training in March 2017,” reveals Amrish Kumar Adhana, the Services …
