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Way Ahead of Bollywood: The Exceptional Realism of the Parallel Tamil Cinema Tackling Social Issues
Since last December, four of the five highest-grossing Indian movies have been from South India namely KGF: Chapter 2, RRR, Ponniyin Selvan: Part I, and Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1. Th...
In Cinema, Oct 21, 2022
Hijab in Schools and Kashmir Files Controversies
In recent days, two subjects have gathered much attention in India: the Hijab verdict of the Karnataka High Court and the movie Kashmir Files. Much has been written about many thinker...
In Religion, Cinema, Mar 20, 2022
Bundelkhand's Multicultural Milieu: Narmada-Jamna Tehzeeb
The Doab region of present-day Uttar Pradesh has for millennia been amongst the most fertile regions in the world. As the Harappan Civilization mostly concentrated along the Indus and...
In History, Culture, Religion, Feb 01, 2022
Walking Behind Rama's Footsteps
India is an old and diverse entity clothed as a young nation-state. Unlike other cultural entities and nations bound by a single language, religion, or race, India houses a multitude ...
In History, Culture, Religion, Jan 03, 2022
The Illusion of Free Will: Reflections Based on Self-experience
Among all the illusions that we human beings suffer from, I believe that the illusion of us possessing free will is the most pervasive and yet inconspicuous. The concept of “free will...
In Philosophy, Oct 10, 2021
Three Contradictions at the Heart of Political Islam: Muslim World and the Taliban in Perspective
The sudden and tragic turn of events in Afghanistan has once again brought Political Islam (that too one of its most virulent variants) under the world’s urgent attention. Twenty year...
In InternationalAffairs, Religion, Aug 18, 2021
Religion and Science in the 21st Century: The Differences and the Meeting Ground of Advaita Vedanta
Religion and Science, often these two words, when they appear together, invoke a feeling of being absolutely contradictory to each other. This is mainly because most of our learning s...
In Religion, Culture, Others, Aug 08, 2021
The Most Socially-Challenged Smart Minds: Pitfalls of Studying Engineering
In India, the road to securing admission to a top engineering college goes through entrance examinations that are designed to test one’s aptitude in various subjects. The nature of th...
In Others, Jul 10, 2021
On Vegetarianism, Religion, and Morality
It is interesting that though one’s choice of food should only be based on preference, habit, and environment, religion (especially in the Indian Subcontinent) has always taken a keen...
In Religion, Culture, Philosophy, Jun 29, 2021
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