Hints Of Sex And Magic

Some, like Barbara Hutton and Charlie Chaplin, were rich and famous and stayed only for a short time. Others, like painter Walter Spies, car...

Conquests And Dutch Colonial Rule

In the 19th century, Europe took up the fashion of empire building with a vengeance. Tiny Holland, once Europe's most prosperous tradin...

A Macabre Massacre

In 1908 the bloody puputan (meaning "ending" in Balinese ) was repeated on a smaller scale in Klungkung. The ghastly scene was one...

A literary Character

Lange was perhaps the prototype for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim - a man who failed to pick the winning side in an internecine dynastic stru...

The 'Green Revolution'

Recent changes in Balinese agricultural practices have brought about fundamental changes in the relationship of the Balinese to their stap...