Opinion | This Ching Ming, let’s sweep away fusty Chinese ideas of death and dying
No one ever told me how to learn to accept peacefully the loss of a life, especially of a loved one. I lost my elder brother to heart disease in …
Taboo
‘The thrill of the forbidden’: how Charles Baudelaire’s dark, taboo-busting poetry changed the life of a Sotheby’s executive
One of the seminal works of French literature, “Les Fleurs du Mal” (“The Flowers of Evil”; 1857) contains most of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. Strikingly innovative and taboo-busting in …
Woman puts late-stage cancer father in hospice ward, believes no need ‘to let a dying person live in pain’, triggering taboo end-of-life debate in China
The experience of a woman in Shanghai who sent her cancer-stricken father to a hospice ward, facing pressure from relatives for not arranging further medical treatment, has triggered a debate …
In India, a sex-positive website offers ‘honest, open’ space for society to discuss taboo topics
In India, any discussion of sexuality is taboo, something which film-maker Paromita Vohra has been trying to challenge with her sex-positive website, where people can access a range of material …