Going to the beach when I was a kid was an elaborate event. Mum hated it because she had to wake up before dawn to prepare the Indian picnic for dad. While we begged for sandwiches and Tang juice, dad demanded the full Indian treatment – puli soru, a tamarind flavoured rice dish and thairu soru, a spiced yoghurt rice dish. All dad had to do was fit into his retro tiger-print Speedos -  and he’d pull it off, or maybe I was just so in awe of him that …

Why are people so unkind?
- A Cypriot-Greek-Australian daughter’s perspective

“When I have kids I won’t be strict with them like our parents. They can bring home any nationality they like – as long as it’s not Chinese,” Mary declared, thumping her fist on the table like she had made law.

Mary is my first cousin, and she had made this statement to me and to four other girl cousins twelve years ago at a cousins’ reunion party; that statement has remained with me ever since. Not because it was outrageously racist. …

Josh Goldman is a composer / improviser / guitarist / educator who resides in the United States. He composes / improvises / performs music, using acoustic and electronic sources, for various ensembles and settings. Much of his music combines sound and visual elements (film / video / various installation spaces). His compositions and performances have been heard and awarded internationally. Mr. Goldman holds degrees from New England Conservatory of Music (BM in music performance) and Brooklyn College, CUNY (MM in music composition). 
Language is a stereophonic sound structure composed for …