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In the middle of Crime and Punishment Dovstojesky – otherwise sticking tight to his characters from beginning to end – takes a brisk leap back:…
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Literature
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One knows by comparison and sometimes, as in Blake, through contraries. It is evident in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience and less…
Literature
Walter Benjamin, Or How the Essay Should Be
Atharva Pandit studies Walter Benjamin’s art of essay
Culture
Being Marxist, Being Santiago
Sabah Carrim chats with Santiago, a political refugee from Chile
Music
A Trip through Indian Classical
Goirick Brahmachari’s poems on the theme Indian Classical
Cinema
2 or 3 Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Bunuel
In 1967 two of the most significant figures in the history of cinema, both of whom were working at the height of their powers, released films on dramatically and coincidentally similar themes: Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. Michael Paul Hogan studies both movies.
Literature
Saadat Hasan Manto – A Retrospective
Maitreyee ponders over Manto’s writings
Cinema
From ‘Calcutta’ to ‘Kolkata’
Amitava Nag explores the journey of Bengali Cinema over the years
Design
Patrick Geddes
Robert Boucheron inspects the legacy of Patrick Geddes, 100 years after Cities in Evolution was published.
Literature
Colonial India and Genealogy At Sea
Akhil Katyal explores how Amitav Ghosh plays with the concept of genealogy to give us an intricate history of colonialism in his 2008 novel ‘Sea of Poppies’.
Cinema
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Siddharth Sivakumar reviews Julie Taymor’s screen adaptation of The Tempest
Philosophy
Speakers' Corner
When a government curbs the freedom of expression, speech and assembly so that it almost non-existent, this is usually interpreted as a fear of upheaval….
Culture
The Souq
On the way to The Wall, the surviving section of the perimeter wall that had once enclosed the Second Temple, the Herodian temple, built on land purchased…
Philosophy
The Panopticons that Surround Us
Sabah Carrim explores Michel Foucault’s idea of panopticons
Culture
On Irish Mythology – 2
Daragh Smyth introduces the readers to Irish Mythology in a two-part essay.
Culture
Belmont Park
Robert Boucheron writes on the experience of a daily walk in a neighbourhood park
Literature
The Apocalypse
Atharva Pandit explores the works of the great Hungarian writer, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Culture
On Irish Mythology – 1
Daragh Smyth introduces the readers to Irish Mythology in a two-part essay.
Philosophy
Writers & “Truth Regimes”
Cheriyan Alexander writes about intolerant regimes that hound writers/artists from time to time and on the role of scriptures in the history of religious intolerance.
Literature
The Great Contrarian
Akshay Sreevatsa ponders over Christopher Hitchens and his book, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Literature
To Wait and Not See Nothing
Atharva Panditon writes on Tor Ulven, the modernist Norwegian poet who has commanded respect and considerable influence over contemporary Norwegian poetry, and yet, hitherto remains largely unknown in English-language literature.
Cinema
Backyard Film Festival
When Fred Schneider turned sixty, he wanted to mark the occasion. A tall, thin man with reddish blond hair, he describes the feeling as a…
Music
Meeting Bhimsen Joshi
This article has a long, varied history. It began life as an e-mail to a friend. Then, at his suggestion, I posted it to RMIC….
Literature
The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy
A re-run of the interview with U R Ananthamurthy from the July issue.