065 - Stillness of the Night
The prayer drums that girdle this holy conglomerate of stones are one with the stillness of the night. The Gompa is surprisingly stable atop that rocky hill, which looks like a cataract of boulders halted in descent. (Excerpt from Ladakh Nocturne by Keli Daruwala)
Racing against the stillness of the night, against a weekend that went too soon, a night issue of Bombay Daak.
Time Well Spent
Vincent Van Gogh’s night visions // Very few artists have brought the night alive with a tenderness on canvas as Van Gogh could.
“Contrary to an enduring misconception of van Gogh as a rough and ready chromomaniac driven by his instincts to render what he saw almost as quickly as he saw it, the artist's twilight and night scenes are actually elaborate constructions that also call on his vast literary knowledge.”
Darkest Night by Molly Knox Ostertag // this afterword on the journey of creating this graphic novel deserves its own space in the reading shelves. And it sets a mood that this issue of Daak is under.
The Woman Who Came In From the Night // The poetry of Nazik al-Mala'ika
Time Spent Elsewhere
Starry night in Syria (2016)
Salvador Maldonado’s Night Island
Still the Night (Live)
Ways of Seeing
Some stills from the night in the eye of Henri Prestes