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Totokkinderen in the Netherlands
Readers of the latter archipelago like me who regularly Indian magazines, books and web sites or visiting know it already: Indo and Indo is in a relationship usually does. That is my experience. That for me has nothing to do with the old mores within Indo-circles with a Dutch man [...]
River Lossie
Alfred Birney's River Lossie, contemporary version of an Indian myth This article was first published in Archipelago magazine, summer 2009. River Lossie is the comeback of the writer Alfred Birney stage. The thirty chapters constructed novel is a story of a man about his Indian roots trip to Scotland. During a walk along [...]
Bruised egos and cold tea
This column was published in December in the winter 2008 edition of Archipelago magazine. Delicious. With that smallpox is out, I find it a pleasure to a large pot of tea, to crawl on the couch and a good book deal. And I have plenty to choose from this winter. Our science is the [...]
Two minutes
You often only notice that you are different if you are aware of your surroundings makes. Sometimes it's annoying, at other times very enlightening. As a child of two Indian parents, I noticed that my family was different, I had a remarkable number of aunts and uncles, my grandfather one almost every year to [...]
Puberteske expectations Indonesia
Indonesia. All four of my grandparents were born and when they were alive, that country was part of my daily life. Today, I'm not sure what I need with Indonesia. Indeed, since the death of my last grandparent has become increasingly important Dutch East Indies. From my study I [...]






