Veronika Eisensteinová: I breathe new life into old trees Veronika Eisensteinová is one of only a few women who work in carpentry. It was something of a chance experience that she started to work with wood. She was … Read More
Filmmaker Michal Gálik: Anyone Can Change the World Michal Gálik is a young Slovak documentary filmmaker, best known for the film Zelená Poušť (Green Desert), a documentary which introduced the truth behind the palm oil industry to a … Read More
An interview with a Tibetan Monk in Prague: An insight into Tibetan culture, identity and the realities of life from the personal experience and opinions of a monk living far from home. Our interview with Tibetan lama … Read More
This interview with a director of the Czech non-profit organization ´ShineBean´, Renata Rokuskova, is about the current state of the Kenyan schooling system, the attitude of children to education and their opportunities in the future. We also learn more … Read More
Navjyot Vyas (a photographer) Navjyot Vyas was born in 1994, in Gujarat in India. He studied at Alpha High school in Junagadh. He graduated in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the Saurashtra University Rajkot (BA). During his … Read More
Prof. PhDr. JUDr. Leopold Jaroslav Pospisil, Ph.D. DSc. Leopold Jaroslav Pospisil is a well-known professor of comparative law, who has held an influential position at Yale University for more than two decades. Leopold Pospisil is one of the … Read More
Jian Guo Chen (an entrepreneur and chef) Jian Guo Chen was born in China in 1960. He emigrated from Beijing in the early 90s and, according to him, ´accidentally´ found himself in Prague. At the beginning he became a … Read More
MA Stanislav Lhota, PhD. Stanislav Lhota is a Czech primatologist, zoologist and conservationist of Indonesian environment. He works in the Usti nad Labem Zoo and at the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources at the Czech University of … Read More
Juraj Sajmovic (cameraman, holder of the prestigious Czech Lion Award for Cinematography for the film Golet v udoli) Juraj Sajmovic was born on 27 April, 1932 in Piestany in the Slovak Republic into a family with Jewish roots. The outbreak … Read More
Ing. Fermín Pedro Barnó Piazza (translator) Fermín Pedro Barnó Piazza was born on 1st December, 1934, in Santa Maria de la Mercedes, Uruguay. He came from a middle-class family and his father owned a tailor´s workshop, which employed the … Read More