Valley of Words (Part 2)
VoW 2017 celebrated the joy of scholarship without ado.
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Valley of Words 2017 (Part 1)
Poetry helps us survive. VoW 2017 made life worthwhile again.
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On Tantra (to be continued)
This is an essay on Tantra which originated from a draft prepared for some other purpose. Here I try to show how Tantra and Yoga are related to each other.
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Hichki: why critics are wrong & the plight of the poorest of the poor in India
This is a review of the film Hichki. The reviewer critiques the Indian education system and Indian plutocracy.
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Of Frs. Christian Mignon & Lawrence Abello or, Lectio Divina 2 (R.I.P. Fathers)
Frs. Christian Mignon and Lawrence Abello were our greatest linguists and neo-Thomists. This post remembers them. Fr. Mignon went to the Man from Galilee this October, 20. Fr. Abello had returned to Jesus earlier.
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Why you should never read Hideo Yokoyama
This novel makes a mockery of the Japanese police, of parenting in Japan and of the modernist technique in Japanese letters. A forgettable and regrettable monumental effluvia.
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Kyrie Eleison or Lectio Divina 1
This is a meditation on a God who unsettles us and cries out from among the poor. A God who hangs in shame from a Cross.
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Review 1, of Kushanava Choudhury’s Sepulchral City
Kushanava Choudhury’s nostalgic book about Calcutta is marred by his quiet hubris. America haunts this failed bildungsroman.
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On Tantra (to be continued)
22 Apr 2018
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Of Frs. Christian Mignon & Lawrence Abello or, Lectio Divina 2 (R.I.P. Fathers)
22 Oct 2017
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Why you should never read Hideo Yokoyama
17 Oct 2017
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Review 1, of Kushanava Choudhury’s Sepulchral City
9 Oct 2017
Valley of Words ›
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Valley of Words (Part 2)
23 May 2018
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Valley of Words 2017 (Part 1)
2 May 2018
