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Category: Culture

Politics Of Life…

Human beings have learnt about the term Pandemic mainly from novels and movies. One can mention Albert Camus’ The Plague (1947) or Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by […]

The Re-discovery Of India!

Hindustan is the 1000-year-old Persian name of India. In the early 20th Century, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) – the Indian Independence activist and politician […]

Text Recorded Through Textile…

Inca was the largest civilisation of the 15th Century… it was basically a mixture of technology and aristocracy. The Peruvian city of Machu Picchu still bears the imprint of technology […]

Seldom Considered As Violence!

After the Nirbhaya incident in New Delhi, it became painfully clear that many Indian men do not consider rape as a heinous offence, with the incident being the 2012 Delhi […]

Femme Assise Près D’une Fenêtre

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973), despite being married to Olga Khokhlova (June 17, 1891 – February 11, 1955), had fallen in love with 18-year-old Marie-Thérèse […]

Love Wins

The progressive Catholic Priests in Germany have started blessing same-sex couples, defying a Vatican ban on such marriage! Earlier in March, the Vatican’s Doctrinal Office issued a statement, advising the […]

Reactions, With Fury…

In two Open Letters, a group of serving French soldiers recently accused the Government of President Emmanuel Macron of ignoring warnings of an impending Civil War! A couple of months […]

Bringing Cheer To Children…

The children in Mand – a small town in southern Balochistan bordering Iran, an impoverished rural area of Pakistan – wait eagerly for Roshan, everyday! Roshan, saddle panniers hang low […]

More About Life Than Death…

Abdel Latif al-Salim breathed his last at a hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus. The old man’s last wish was to be buried in the family plot in their […]