The Masterly Use of Universalism: Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s Cinema in 2023
His films are about the human condition and the ‘dailiness’ or undramatic aspects of life with no simple winners or losers.
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Meet the Extraordinary Intellectual Tho Pa, Who Awakened Tamils to the Richness of Their Culture
An introduction to Tho Paramasivan, the author of ‘Ariyappadaatha Tamizhagam’, translated into English as ‘The Sweet Salt of Tamil’.
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Why the Government of Venezuela has Resisted While Many Leftist Presidents Could Not
Chávez faced—and Maduro has continued to face—all the strategies, tactics, maneuvers, games, and schemes that the U.S. empire and its satellites and lackeys have successfully used throughout the rest of the continent, among other ploys that have been used in other parts of the world.
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Shakespeare and Marxism
Shakespeare work is usually depicted as apolitical, devoid of any radical or subversive messages. It is a mistaken belief; his plays reflect the ills of rising capitalism and emergence of the bourgeois individual: cutthroat and egotistical – this can be seen in characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
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When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality
In 1930, Tagore visited Albert Einstein at his home in Berlin. The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history, exploring the age-old friction between science and religion. An excerpt from one of their conversations.
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Why Movements Need to Start Singing Again
Organizers are rediscovering how song culture can help lead the way to social change.
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Allah and Krishna Came Together in the Songs of This Long-Forgotten Awadhi Singer
Aseemun’s repertoire, with its easy mix of folk, ritual, spiritual and pious, bespoke a syncretic tradition that is fast becoming anachronistic in India.
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Protecting Brinjal from Piracy at a Time When MoEF&CC Dilutes Biodiversity Laws
Biopiracy and biolooting are widely prevalent, and rarely, if ever, tackled. A major reason for this is weak laws in various biodiversity rich countries, or the lack of effective implementation of biodiversity protection laws even when they exist, as is the case in India.
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Shelley’s Revolutionary Poetry
Shelley was probably the greatest English Romantic poet. The critic Harold Bloom described him as “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem”. But he was much more than that: he was also a passionate revolutionary.
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Walk, Walk
A short poem.
