From I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha to Chameleon, No Passion No Point and Goodbye To All This

From a spirituality podcast hosted by Lee Mack to Chameleon, No Passion No Point and Goodbye To All This, the best podcasts to listen to this week By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:00 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 2 January 2021 Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen  I love podcasts about glamorous scammers, and this … Read more

Buddha Air plane flies the wrong way, taking passengers to airport 160 miles from its destination

Buddha Air plane flies the wrong way and takes its passengers to airport 160 miles from its destination The Nepalese airline was supposed to fly south to Janakpur from Kathmandu’s  Tribhuvan International Airport But instead it flew north west to Pokhara in central Nepal due to ‘human error’ 69 passengers were flummoxed to find themselves in … Read more

New book Eat The Buddha by Barbara Demick tells the tragic story of the people of Tibet

POLITICS EAT THE BUDDHA  by Barbara Demick (Granta, £18.99, 272pp) The very word ‘Tibet’ has romantic, resonance.  The ‘Roof of the World’ conjures the vast snowy wastes of the High Himalayan plateau, populated by yaks, nomadic herders, yetis and Buddhist lamas in russet robes, capable of levitation and clairvoyance. Alas, there is a very different … Read more