Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice by Kathryn McClymond Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2015

A peek into the psychology and trends of Indian youth.

A brief summary of the ICT based education conducted by the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University

Life of former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, who was also the author of the Indian missile program.

The history of the association of Sri Ramakrishna and the Ramakrishna Mission with Shyampukur Bati, Kolkata.

This paper explores how one can go beyond social and other distinctions by the praxis of Advaita Vedanta

Explores the Indian perspectives on coping with Aging.

Hindu Vishva hinduvishwa malayalam cultural magazine 2016 October 17 – November 16 Issue

Hindu Vishva hinduvishwa malayalam cultural magazine 2016 September 17 – October 16 Issue

Cities of InfraRed is an abstract for my proposed contribution to a book that is being put together by Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder. The book has the working title of Aesthetics of the Commons, and arises out of the Creating Commons research project at the Zurich University of the Arts.

A version of Cities of…[Read more]

Mīrzā Fatḥ ‘Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European Enlightenment political thought to modern Iranian society. This essay frames Ākhūndzāda’s text within a broader intellectual tradition. I read Ākhūndzāda as a radical reformer whose inte…[Read more]

The United Nations cited the 2010 monsoon floods in Pakistan as the largest
humanitarian crisis in living memory. The environmental catastrophe effected
twenty million people and highlighted the complicated relationship between nature
and society. The lives of extremely vulnerable groups such as subsistence farmers
and unskilled labourers were…[Read more]

A central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]

Public racist stereotypes after the election of Barack Obama

On the photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the visual politics of power

On pacifist and patriotic visual imagery and the tenth anniversary of the First World War in Weimar German

On the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko

On looking at lynching photographs

The politics of Rivera’s RCA mural in New York City.

One of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and…[Read more]