Valley of Words Valley of Words (Part 2) 23 May 201823 May 2018 In literary festivals, we do not find lucid academic discussions. Well, well, well. The Tatas might have blood-money on their hands, it seems. I have used this photo from The…
Valley of Words Valley of Words 2017 (Part 1) 2 May 20182 May 2018 Munawwar Rana (1952-), the Urdu poet who had turned down his 2015 Sahitya Akademi prize, was the spirit of the Valley of Words International Literature and Arts Festival which took…
Hinduism… On Tantra (to be continued) 22 Apr 201822 Apr 2018 Tantra has been most exhaustively defined by Georg Feuerstein in his book Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy (Feuerstein, "Tantra. the Great Spiritual Synthesis" 1-19 & also see Whicher 183, 363 for…
Film Review Hichki: why critics are wrong & the plight of the poorest of the poor in India 15 Apr 201816 Apr 2018 Hichki (2018) has been found dour by denizens of the Indian film-industry (Sarkar). The biggies who watch movies for a living have cribbed about how Mrs Rani Mukherjee has failed…
Roman Catholic Priests… Of Frs. Christian Mignon & Lawrence Abello or, Lectio Divina 2 (R.I.P. Fathers) 22 Oct 201724 Oct 2017 St. Benedict of Nursia wants us to perform the work of God in silence. The work of God is…
Book Review… Why you should never read Hideo Yokoyama 17 Oct 201722 Oct 2017 I will try to be as tautological as Yokoyama. Like Yokoyama I will carry on and on about the same things till you know the torture of reading Six Four.…
Liberation Theology… Kyrie Eleison or Lectio Divina 1 10 Oct 201722 Oct 2017 Then again, I contemplate all the oppression that is committed under the sun. Take for instance the tears of the oppressed. No one to comfort them! The power their oppressors…
Book Review… Review 1, of Kushanava Choudhury’s Sepulchral City 9 Oct 201722 Oct 2017 The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury. Bloomsbury, Great Britain 2017. The rains have been lashing at my city this whole day and last night.…
