Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall is a poetic, creative and sociological take on our contemporary silk roads and hazmat highways. Parts of its libretto have been staged by Anuradha Kapur and Deepan Sivaramanan in Delhi in 2018 as Dark Things.The journey reconstructs a via dolorosa through the excesses and forms of exploitation, discrimination and suffering.

This collection, published by SA History Online and distributed by Deep South in conjunction with UKZN Press, brings together the published work of Mafika Gwala (1946-2014), one of South Africa's most powerful poets and political thinkers. The text includes his two books Jol'iinkomo (Ad Donker, 1977) and No More Lullabies (Ravan, 1982), as well as his poems published in Exiles Within: Seven South African poets (Writers Forum, 1986). The collection is edited with a substantial introduction by Mandla Langa and Ari Sitas, themselves well-known writer-activists who both knew Gwala well.

If we are to talk of a `new' intellectual movement, the question is begged: what happened to the `old' intellectual movement? What happened to the thinkers who inspired and led our struggle against colonialism, apartheid and exploitation? What has happened to the thinkers who gave substance and guidance and, in many cases, practical leadership to our attempts to undo the past and forge a new future? In pursuit of answers to these questions, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), in partnership with the Liliesleaf Trust, hosted a roundtable in March 2015 on the theme `The Role of Intellectuals in the State-Society Nexus'. The roundtable received inputs from a range of thinkers, including Ibbo Mandaza, Ben Turok, Ari Sitas, Ayanda Ntsaluba, Xolela Mangcu, Joel Netshitenzhe, Tshilidzi Marwala and Nomboniso Gasa, as well as provocative and piercing inputs from the attendees. This publication aims to put the contributions and debates at the roundtable further into the public domain and records the input of the main speakers, the respondents, as well as the discussion from the floor. The rigorous debate at the roundtable spilt out of the boundaries of the event itself and encouraged a number of thinkers to provide additional material for this publication: Z. Pallo Jordan, David Moore (with Tshilidzi Marwala) and Desiree Lewis. The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), which was publicly launched as a think tank in March 2011, was founded by a group of South Africans with experience in research, academia, policy-making and governance, who saw the need to create a platform for engagement around strategic issues facing South Africa. The Institute combines research and academic development, strategic reflections and intellectual discourse and applies itself to issues such as economics, sociology, governance, history, arts and culture, and the logics of the natural sciences.

Have a kerala coffee on the go; hop on a train to see the Elephant Man; stop for a moment to sip on a Sula or order a chai.Ari Sitas awakens our senses with this unique sensory encounter. Experience the sights, sounds and smells of India with Aouda and Passerpartout. This book forms part of the prestigious Unsia Flame Series for interdisciplinary works. Ari Sitas awakens our senses with this unique sensory encounter. With full colour original Kerala art work, this truly is a unique work of art. Around the world in 80 days takes us on a seven-day journey to India. A reconstruction of Jules Verne's journey of 1872, Phileas Fogg, Auda and Passepartout are transferred to the 21st century, in a dialogue of what was and what is and what remains ... undecided ... "Have we defined India, Passerpartout, what is the verdict ..."

Rough music is a selection from the nine books and poetry manuscripts that Ari Sitas has written over the past 25 years. His poems are notable for their historical-political astuteness flavoured with a romantic surrealism. Sitas writes in a variety of poetic forms, from exuberant jazz-like improvisations to astringent political observations, from humorous dialogues to diary-like narratives. Though always complex, the warmth and self-interrogation of his poems ensures their wide appeal.