And once again, as we have done in the past, this Christmas and New Year we shall all sit down to sumptuous meals, drink whatever fancies our taste buds, shop till we drop and pamper our overweight children and pets. It’s the season of happiness, love and family especially for the homeless, injured and maimed children of wars, missing people in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, asylum seekers, political detainees and the fringe folk of the planet. They will surely be very happy and content with what they see, hear, feel and touch this festive season. – Mark Ulyseas, 2018 Year of Living Foolishly.

DOWNLOAD DIGIMAG HERE
Dr Róisín Burke – Guest Editorial – Somalia – Gender Justice Post-Conflict
Dr Namrata Goswami – Australia: An Old Space Player…
Dr Howard Richards – Solidarity for Raising Wages
David Morgan – Populism and identity politics
Dr Cauvery Ganapathy – The Inconvenience of Making a Movement…
Dr Devaki Jain – Overview of Close Encounters of Another Kind
Mark Ulyseas – 2018 Year of Living Foolishly?
Professor Anita Ghai – Disability in South Asia…
Professor Ashok S Chousalkar – Rethinking Political Thought of Ancient India
Professor S Irfan Habib – Bhagat Singh and his revolutionary inheritance
Professor Sanjeev Jain and Dr Alok Sarin – The Psychological Impact…

Conservation begins with the first four steps: love, non-violence, forgiveness and charity. Why do we talk of climate change when we cannot even look after each other’s basic needs – shelter, food, education etc.? All those that we vote into power come from among us, yet we blame them for the deteriorating state of affairs. Perhaps there is something intrinsically wrong with us that we cannot see our reflection in the very leaders that use and abuse us. Until this warped mentality changes there is little hope of saving Mother Nature from ourselves. – Mark Ulyseas

DOWNLOAD DIGIMAG HERE
Dr Margi Prideaux – Guest Editorial – Just Conservation…
Dr Mukesh Batra – The Catalytic Synergy of Homeopathic Medicine
Andrea Lamberti – My Favourite Photographs Part II
Donna Mulvenna – Peace
Dr Bayu Wirayudha – Rescuing Endangered Wildlife in Bali
Emma Barone – Dualities of Light and Dark
Jill Gocher – The Bali Farmer
José Truda Palazzo Jr – On The Negro River
Mark Ulyseas – Bảo tàng Phụ nữ Việt Nam
Mikyoung Cha – Pakse Champasak Lao
Ozlem Warren – Patlicanli Tencere Kebabi
Super Chef Putu Yudana presents a Romantic Dinner at WAKAGANNGA

We thank Thomas McCarthy for taking time out to pen this enlightening guest editorial. Poets constantly remind us of the power of the WORD. Lyricism is the symphony of the WORD. It is the pathfinder for all that is virtuous and true. Perhaps poets are here to pay our debts to this world. Thomas McCarthy graciously reminds us of our responsibility to members of the WORD – women poets. Much needs to be done but we have the WORD. Now all we need to do is to listen and follow the lyricism with respect and gratitude.
– Mark Ulyseas

Dhanyavad Randhir Khare for offering us a view from the womb of the WORD.  The worlds that poets create, water and feed with their visions, become a panoramic backdrop to our everyday struggles… words that dance with each other to form wave after wave of pure music for the senses. They are also mirrors that often reflect the mark of Cain. Randhir Khare and others of the WORD are constantly measuring the rhythms of life… now and then infusing love and hope where darkness and anger has taken hold. We must listen to the poets for without them the music will surely die within us. – Mark Ulyseas