The place that travel writer PicoIyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insi...
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer PicoIyer -- who himself has three or four "origins" -- meditates on ...
The place that travel writer PicoIyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insight that comes with taking time for stillness. In our world of constant movement and distraction, he teases out strategies we all can use to take back a few minutes out of every day, or a few days out of every season.
PicoIyer | TEDGlobal 2013 • June 2013. Read transcript. More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer PicoIyer -- who himself has three or four "origins" -- meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing still. culture;
PicoIyer was born in Oxford, England in 1957. He won a King's Scholarship to Eton and then a Demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Congratulatory Double First with the highest marks of any English Literature student in the university. In 1980 he became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, where he received a second Master's ...
Novelist and nonfiction author PicoIyer has written about everything from Islamic mysticism to the 21st-century world order. His 17 books (translated into 23 languages) include The Open Road, The Art of Stillness and, most recently, The Half Known Life, which explores ideas of utopia and how we might find peace amid difficulty and suffering ...
TodayIyer will talk on 'The Earth Flame: Searching For Inner Peace', moderated by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. Also Read: Celebrities, Politicians, Changemakers: ABP Ideas Of India 2025 To Bring Together Brightest Minds. Iyer is a full-time writer who has published 15 books, translated into 23 languages, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to ...
Jan 14, 2025PicoIyer is the author of 15 books, translated into 23 languages, and has been a constant contributor for more than thirty years to Time, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His four recent talks for TED have received more than 11 million views.
Mar 30, 2023As reality gets more and more virtual, we cry out for the experience of meeting something in the flesh, says PicoIyer. We long to meet our global neighbors ...
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