Postcard from Bishkek

Bearing in mind that there are differences between the various versions of the epic … it is the world’s longest epic with over half a million lines … it is said to take three months, four hours a day, to recite the whole epic from start to finish … it took several years for the [...]

One of the advantages of the internet is that I can now scour lots of different sources of news from around the world.  Back in the UK, I rarely had the opportunity to read newspapers on weekdays because I used to leave home well before the newspaper boy would have delivered them, but I did [...]