NOT long ago, at a social gathering, I overheard a high-ranking U.S. military officer berating the Korean people for their "mendicant mentality." He was deeply annoyed by the inability of the Koreans ...

Cola’s new song “Mendicant” is classic indie rock shamble-stumble. Tim Darcy drawls out lyrics about the pope and romanticized sleep over tootling woodwinds and guitars that seem to be ...

Or, secondly, they will demand for another improved mendicant program to replace it. Sadly, however, in both instances, they are still perpetual mendicants. With these scenarios inevitably ...

Canadian Historian Bruce Hutchison mourned that Canada was “brought to the rim of ruin . . . and became a mendicant.” The mendicant has since done pretty well for himself. By arranging loans ...

Parvati or Karpagambal on seeing him return to the shrine without the ring does not let him in and so the next day in the evening, Siva sets out as Bhikshatana or the divine mendicant, complete ...

WA and the nation were both rewarded, but it was the state that took the risk. Hardly the actions of a mendicant in the way the term is usually applied. Even when the GST was introduced, WA was not ...

Now, in her recent and riveting historical fiction: The Mendicant Prince (Picador India, 2022) we encounter the qualities that are her forte: a detailed evocation of a period through the inner ...