Sunday, August 11, 2019

From the World of Vodka to the Dragon's Heart



"Now that we were so perilously close to finishing, I realized that relief wasn’t the overriding emotion. There were two others: a sense of achievement and a sense of great loss."

-- Time Cope at the end of 10,000 km cycling journey

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Voices from Chernobyl


 A fantastic but depressing, very depressing book simultaneously, very difficult to go through. But it gives different points of view and insights from the acute victims to the liquidators, firemen, soldiers, teachers, students, housewives, resettlers, camera recorders, photographers, writers, journalists, school children, young children. How they were affected and how they perceived the incident, and its aftermaths, its causes and people's behavior towards them and theirs towards those people.