Poetry as Socio-proctology

 Ranajit Guha came from what is now the Islamic Republic of Bangladesh- a country whose per capita Income has now greatly overtaken that of ...

Ranajit Guha is an historian. He is over 90 years old. He was born in India and only emigrated some 12 years after Independence. Thus he m...

Women are Water tho' into the World they bring Vedic Earth, Fire & an heir to the King.  No Bhishma, I, tho' my head's ...

All who kill are Cain save their Loaf-Lord live & to Murder's Mummy, Blood Money give Or, patripassian son, by beot's lofgeor...

In the dozen years since he last saw her, his mother had grown old. The skin around her neck was loose and fell in folds, like her flesh col...

 A friend sent me this link to a recent piece by Pico Iyer in which he asks why he so often dreams of Paris, a City he has rarely visited. ...

Why was the soul invented? One theory, I'm thinking of Obeyesekere, is that'Small-scale Societies' used the notion of metempsyc...