A walk around my old hood in Tokyo, taking notes, writing them down, thinking like a tourist.

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Hayama was always our escape from the big city back when I lived in Tokyo, and on a visit last year, after having been away for several, I returned to the seaside town to see how things have progressed. And progressed they have.

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In this essay, written in Tokyo and Bangalore, I compare a master of traditional Indian dance with one of the last people in Japan able to play the lute-like satsuma biwa. How do these men deal with the fact that their life-dedicated art may soon be obsolete? Do the Indian/Japanese cultural mores affect Krishnamurthy’s Indian / Tomoyushi Kakushin’s Japanese outlook? They certainly do.

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A music review of Them Crooked Vultures for The Caravan, with a sentimental twist.

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With the largest numbers of Sri Lankan Tamils outside the island, dreams of a separate Tamil homeland are still nurtured in Canada.

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I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but the blog page here at davebesseling.com has been down for a bit. My technical incompetence which led to not updating the blog software since the site began years ago, in turn, led to the site being hacked, chewed, and all backup blog files spit out somewhere on the dark side of the aether. Basically, all posts were lost and the blog now has to start from scratch again. There were a couple of posts that I will miss, but over the next days, I’ll begin re-cataloguing at least the links to published work.

Eat a peach,

Dave.