Mohan Gurung – Nepal’s Tattooist Extraordinaire

My story on Mohan Gurung, one of Nepal’s greatest tattoo artists and an incredibly kind and generous man to boot. I interviewed Mohan both before and after the Nepal earthquake which coincided with Nepal’s fifth international tattoo convention in late April. Not a day goes by when I don’t think about the quake and the […]

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A Night of Bangkok Noir with Peter Rozovsky, Christopher G. Moore and James Newman

   I attended a great evening of talking crime fiction at the Checkinn99 in Bangkok with pulp author James Newman doing the introductions, and crime writer Christopher G. Moore interviewing the incredibly erudite Peter Rozovsky, author of celebrated crime fiction blog Detectives Beyond Borders. The talk veered from the profound to the profane, from traditional […]

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Burma’s election fever grips Yangon and its foreign observers

I feel incredibly humbled to have witnessed the first semi fair and almost free election in Burma in decades. I was at the NLD’s headquarters tonight where an exuberant and chaotic party atmosphere prevailed throughout. But as one Burmese told me, ‘the military are like chess players and they are planning their next move.’ That […]

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