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A solitary soul walks through deep blue grief toward a distant golden light. Love endures, transformed. A pulse waiting.

The Last Translation of Love

“Grief isn’t the end of love; it’s the last translation of love.” A bruisingly honest essay and poem about growing up in loss, learning to live with grief, and discovering how love endures.

Muskan Bhatia with her mother in Indore, India (2000)

Daughter of Her Ache

I was shaped by my mother’s quiet ache, raised in the hush between her wounds and her wishes. These poems trace how a daughter learns to hold that inherited trembling—and finally, to let it go.

Muskan Bhatia, our new poet at Bicerin (Canterbury, UK)

Introducing Muskan Bhatia

Muskan Bhatia at Bicerin—an emerging literary voice in Canterbury whose poetry blends art, truth, and survival with profound emotional depth.

The Three Marks of Existence

Seeing Clearly in a World That Won’t Sit Still

Gustave Doré illustrating Canto XII of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri

Dante's Inferno: Canto XII

Divine Comedy Series- Summary of Inferno, Canto 12. Fixing potholes is free in Hell, but the circle is mismanaged by Centaurs and a Minotaur!

Rosa Celeste: Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven, The Empyrean | Gustave Dore

Hell, Purgatory or Paradise? Everything is here and now

Religion, afterlife, and purpose dissected: Is faith for the weak? Questioning God, doctrines, and the need for belief in a world driven by self-power.

Book Review: The Dhammapada

Discover timeless wisdom with The Dhammapada (Oxford World's Classics Edition). A clear, insightful translation on mindfulness, kindness, and peace.

"Education" written with some calligraphy practice using a Lamy Pen (by Antonello Mirone)

Critical Thinking in the Age of Functional Illiteracy

Rethink education: How over-reliance on institutions, books, and AI may limit true understanding and critical thinking. Embrace active learning.

Gustave Doré illustration of Inferno Canto 11

Dante's Inferno: Canto XI

Divine Comedy Series- Summary of Inferno, Canto 11. Does stench stop you from doing things or motivate you to find a Pope?

Gustave Doré’s illustration of Inferno. Plate XIV: Canto V, a hurricane of souls.

Dante's Inferno:Canto V

Love, Lust, infinite passions and desires. Drama reigns king in here, the second circle of hell!

Gustave Doré’s illustration to Dante’s Inferno. Plate XI: Canto IV: The Virtuous pagans

Dante’s Inferno: Canto IV

When Catholics do not know where to put the ancient pagan poets and philosophers, they invent a VIP lounge and great real estate.

Gustave Doré illustrating Canto 10 of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. Farinata degli Uberti addresses Dante.

Dante’s Inferno: Canto X

The heretics, Farinata and Cavalcante. Two Gentlemen meeting another pair of colleagues in the afterlife!

Gustave Doré illustrating Canto 9 of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. The three Furies.

Dante’s Inferno: Canto IX

Divine Comedy Series — Summary of Inferno, Canto 9. It’s raining angels hallelujah, having a bouncer in Hell is more useful than a VIP…

Gustave Doré illustrating Canto 8 of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. The two poets arrive at the city of Dis and

Dante’s Inferno: Canto VIII

We know they say that some things are better left unsaid, but here we can’t avoid thinking ‘Cry me a river’!

Dante’s inferno canto 7, Plutus illustration of Gustave Doré.

Dante’s Inferno: Canto VII

Divine Comedy Series- Summary of Inferno, Canto 7. Workout is a big deal in hell, and so is the lottery and religion! #Dante

Letters carved in light coloured stone, Nabresina Headstone. Cut at Artisan Memorials, Canterbury.

Memorial Masonry

A craft ancient as civilization itself, where tradition, skills and lettering meet in a unique blend.

Sinners and Ciacco arising from the crowd, Inferno Canto 6, engraving of Gustave Dore.

Dante’s Inferno: Canto VI

What happens when insatiable greed and overconsumption meet? Mud, big dogs and weird gods await you!

Antonello Mirone (Artist, Historian) and Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury), Canterbury Cathedral, 2022.

Restoring Canterbury Cathedral

Explore the backstage of one most famous holy sites in the world, Canterbury Cathedral. This building has it all!

Antonello Mirone (Artist, Historian) with Simon Sebag Montefiore (British historian), Canterbury, 2023.

Books & Literature

The World: A Family History

Review of a colossal work made my Simon Sebag Montefiore and notes from his presentation at Canterbury!

Gustave Doré’s illustration to Dante’s Inferno. Plate VIII: Canto III: The gate of Hell. “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”

Dante’s Inferno: Canto III

Hell has a fancy entrance door, an ancient bearded doorman on a boat and lovely floors to explore.

Dante’s Inferno: Canto II

The second chapter of the Divine Comedy, containing the invocation of the Muses on a holy week-end night!

Art & Architecture

Rich monks of Naples

A monastery in the highest spot of Naples hiding: Sculptures, Frescoes, Paintings and treasures. This place has got all for us to review!

Picture of Antonello Mirone (Art Historian), holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, Canto I of the Inferno.

Dante’s Inferno: Canto I

The first chapter and review of the Divine Comedy, a descriptive analysis and notes to spark your interest and curiosity!

Penguin reader special edition of Dante’s inferno, owned by Antonello Mirone (Art Historian).

Dante’s Inferno series: Introduction

A Mind-Boggling Journey through Hell

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