Karl Marx said all history was economic. To some extent the man was right, but only to some extent. There are so many aspects of life and in nature that won’t be quantified, bought or sold. A number of years ago, while taking part in a literature festival on Bali, I watched a woman sprinkling water in reverential and ritual fashion that, immediately, reminded of my childhood in the west of Ireland – of my father, in particular, sprinkling holy water all around the house during storms or, indeed, on animals and crops for reasons known to him and to our ancestors of thousands of years. We believed in the power of water. Water was drawn to him and he to water. – Terry McDonagh, Live Encounters Magazine, Dec. 2014

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Angela Patten – Whither The Ovenbird
Bob Shakeshaft – Aberration
Dr Greta Sykes – Ides of March 2018
Geraldine Mills – Where you went
Hongri Yuan – Wings of Light
James Martyn Joyce – Last Train to San Fernando
Joachim Matschoss – Haiku Singapore
Mark Ulyseas – Nothing is Eternity
Niall Cahir – Nature’s Oath
Noel Monahan – Chalk Dust
Terry McDonagh – 44 Cantos

This is a special issue featuring an exciting brains trust of Asian authors who are academics. The articles have been specially written by the authors for Live Encounters Magazine to present their thoughts on their books that delve into the complexities of Asian socio-religious-economic developments. There are so many fabulously enlightened people in Asia and we are delighted to offer a glimpse of these luminaries. – Mark Ulyseas, Editor

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Author Manoranjan Byapari and translator Professor Sipra Mukherjee
Dr Arnab Chatterjee – Is the personal beyond private and public?
Dr Debal K SinghaRoy – Identity and Society …
Dr Debasree De – Speaking with the Margin
Dr Devaki Jain – Journey of a Southern Feminist
Dr Jyoti Mohan – Claiming India
Dr Kalinga Seneviratne – Developing a “Human-centric” Journalism Practice
Dr Margaret Kumar and Dr Supriya Pattanayak – Positioning Research…
Dr S K Kulshrestha – India’s Urban Transformation
Dr Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay – Gender Socialization…
Prem Shankar Jha – Making Development Sustainable
Professor R Ramachandran – Why write a book on History of Hinduism?

A special thanks to Merin Jose, PR Executive, SAGE Publications India, for assisting Live Encounters Magazine in putting together this special issue of outstanding authors, and to international photographers Jill Gocher (Indonesia),
Joo Peter (Germany), Mikyoung Cha (South Korea) and Randhir Khare (India) for contributing their photographs.