Poetry as Socio-proctology

So, okay, the 2G auction was a flop. But- and this is the crucial question for high powered Economic theory- how does this affect Kapilji...

M.N. Srinivas has left us a piquant  memoir on F.B. Steiner- which contains the following anecdote of a typical exchange between him and Pr...

The 'sluagh'. in Irish and Scottish folklore, was the spirit horde of the restless dead, and the 'slogan', the Highland Regi...

What does this sentence mean? This oeuvre further demonstrates that it is possible to attain seemingly unattainable depth by virtue of tho...

Prof. Sheldon Pollock holds that the reader of the Ramayana has no means of knowing what Rama feels or whether he feels and, furthermore,  ...

N.B. I've revised the first couplet on the basis of an excellent comment received.  I suppose I may add that my version of this Gh...

Vampires like human blood. Humans are willing to sell blood, preferably that of somebody else, for a price.  So long as Vampires are willing...