If there is one thing that the Covid 19 •Pandemic has taught us, it is how to deal with being alone. Quarantine and Social Distancing, while keeping us away from each other,has forced us to confront that person we normally have the least time for. Which is our own Self. The Self that we have neglected and ignored during our busy lives interacting with the outside world, but which many of us could no longer avoid as we spend more time at home and shy away from public places. We can however, ...

OFFLINE: FINDING YOURSELF IN THE AGE OF DISTRACTIONS ...

A globe-trotting journalist and a lifetime traveler, Desi Anwar has visited many places all over the world, met and interviewed international figures and notable individuals during her years as Indonesia’s top TV anchor and talk show host. In Faces & Places, Desi has compiled some of her travel writings she produced in the last few years and initially published in her weekly column in the English language daily newspaper, The Jakarta Globe. The articles consist of personal impressions, ...

If there's one thing we're good at, is making our lives complicated. We fill it with expectations, anxieties and fears. We fret about the past, we worry about the future, we ignore the present. We seek fulfillment in material things and happiness in wishful thinking, often at the expense of the riches that already surround us. A Simple Life is a collection of musings, observations and thoughts that Desi Anwar gathers from her experience, childhood recollections and perspectives, as ...