Bardarov on Human Aggression and How We Might Save Ourselves as a Nation
You probably know him as a spellbinding novelist, but he is a great deal more. Our conversation with Georgi Bardarov begins and ends with the books and stories that make us human. In between, we talk about a way out of the demographic crisis, about our inability to build an elite that can lead us forward as a nation, and about the ease with which a human being turns into a predator capable of unleashing monstrous cataclysms like World War II.
02Will There Be a Bulgarian Author? Book Picks from IT Leaders, Part III
Would you have guessed that Bulgarian IT leaders read Harry Potter, or even Dostoevsky? I wouldn't have, at least until a week ago, when I asked them and it turned out they do. On the eve of the Day of the Buditeli, I invited 30 remarkable people to recommend three favorite books to the readers of Digital Stories, and today I present the second half of their answers.
03Uncle Dan and the Ugandan Children Who Dance the Horo
You have seen them online or on television, and they are unbelievably moving: focused, serious and artistic, whether they are singing “My Country, My Bulgaria” or dancing the Danube horo, and looking nothing like the usual performers of these songs, just smiling, talented… Ugandan kids. The bridge between cultures is thrilling, and so is the uplifting story of Uncle Dan and his 100 children.
