Literature
Of Books and the Reading Life
Cheriyan Alexander’s recollection from a personal journey of reading and collecting books
Section
Non-Fiction
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Culture
Hurriedly Brewed: The Taste of a City
Maitreyee B. Chowdhury writes from her visit to Hatibagan in Calcutta
Literature
More Real, than Magical
#94616965 / gettyimages.com The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on 17th April, 2014. Through his One Hundred Years of Solitude,…
Literature
Updike & Down Gorge
Let’s face it, we love this materialism we’re wrapped up into: the word has given ‘imitation’ a new meaning, allowing it to acquire additional shades…
Literature
Nothing is Ever Really Lost
Eudora Welty’s life and work share a fascination with memory and time. “Of course the greatest confluence of all,” Welty writes in her memoir One…
Literature
An Extraordinary Life
Soumitra Dasgupta pays tribute to Khushwant Singh
Culture
Raiza
Elaine Rosenberg Miller’s true account of her encounter with a Holocaust survivor
Culture
Monks On Cell Phones & The Real Thailand
Paul W. Jacob discusses his observations from the real Thailand.
Culture
Palestine: 70 AD
Cheriyan Alexander takes us through the events that took place in Palestine in 70 AD, and how they changed the world history.
Philosophy
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Pseudo-Science or Pseudo-Myth?
In this article Dr Peter Tyler reviews how psychology takes its understanding from its conception of psyche, especially in the relationship between mind and body. Drawing on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951), he argues that it is more fruitful to see psychology as a means of ‘seeing the foundation of possible buildings’ rather than appealing to the pseudo-objectivity of science.
Literature
The Desire of the Hysteric
Tanuj Solanki attempts a psychoanalytic reading of Roberto Bolano’s Amulet.
Philosophy
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Lakshmi Gopal studies Ambedkar’s legacy in the light of The Annihilation of Caste
Cinema
A Look into The Lunchbox
Trisha Chatterjee reflects on her viewing of Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox
Literature
The Golden Treasury
Robert Boucheron takes the reader down memory lane to another peek into the trove of poetry, The Golden Treasury
Literature
In His Footsteps
Maitreyee B. Choudhury reflects on Banaphool’s craft of storytelling
Culture
Karen’s Print
This non-fiction essay is an experience from Bob Tomolillo’s days at Piet Clement’s Printshop in Amsterdam.
Literature
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
Camus’ Centenary: The Algerian Question
Part of series on Albert Camus, coinciding with his birth centenary celebrations.
Literature
Alice Munro: In the Footsteps of Chekhov
Arul Gaspar studies the works of 2013 Nobel prize winning writer, Alice Munro, in relation to the works of master storyteller, Anton Chekhov.
Literature
Camus’ Centenary: The Eternal Rebel
Part of series on Albert Camus, coinciding with his birth centenary celebrations.
Cinema
Malegaon Ka Superman
Prashant Parvatneni and Sezel Lalwani explore the influence of socially relevant film projects such as Malegaon Ka Superman
Literature
Bearing Witness to History: Czeslaw Milosz
Cheriyan Alexander writes on East-European poetry, with focus on Czeslaw Milosz and Vasko Popa.
Philosophy
The Future of Philosophy – II
In the final of a two-part series, Lakshmi Gopal gives us a view of the future of philosophy through her experience of the World Congress of Philosophy 2013, held in Athens.
Culture
Postcard from BLF
Suhail Rasheed records his feelings on visiting the Bangalore Literature Festival 2013.