The hullabaloo over the new airport is only the latest parable of India's growth.
His change of address could be read as the latest parable of Old Media cluelessness — allowing a journalism asset to escape who will come back to haunt them — or as another instance of a star journalist cashing in on name-brand success.
The latest parable of Hollywood thrift comes courtesy of San Diego software programmer Oren Peli, whose horror movie about a couple anxiously recording things going bump in the night at their San Diego home was reputedly shot for just $15,000 in his own home, with friends.
This is put to exceptional effect in the self-portraits, of course, but also in the late parables and legends, particularly the version of Lucretia from Washington.
Much of the art in the College of New Jersey's latest exhibition, "Parable of the Garden: New Media Art from Iran and Central Asia," shows a level of sophistication that may come as a surprise to many viewers.
The spine of his latest, The Parable Book, is the story of his encounter, at 15, with a 51-year-old woman visiting from a suburb of Stockholm, identified for the most part simply as "the woman on the smooth pine floor".
A few tracks into my first listen of MJM's latest record, MJM Parables Part 1, an EP released by the artist last month, my only thought was, "What?! How is this guy not already insanely rich and famous?" I've since listened to Parables a few more times through just for fun, and I'm going to keep listening to it for a long, long time.
Unfolding on an epic scale, this coherent, if uncompleted, portrayal of our age is a grand parable of "late capitalism" set in the innards of the Internal Revenue Service.
Which is why, soon after we meet for a coffee in Glasgow's West End, we're talking about counting the "cunts" in his latest offering: a book of parables and prose called Daft Wee Stories.
Consider this parable from the late novelist David Foster Wallace: "There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What the hell is water?'".
The Parade, his latest novel for adults, is a brief parable about war and its aftermath, designed principally to show that efforts at reconstruction can involve or even allow further strife.
