Poetry as Socio-proctology

   Binary opposition in a structural analysis has tremendous pedagogic force. Not just the teacher, the writer (or talkative Cafe flaneur) ...

Asar Q Ahmed is a young Professor of Arabic at Berkeley. Though his first degree was from Yale, the bastard speaks Urdu with a correct accen...

Clark Kent is actually Superman- who is invulnerable to blades and bullets. Yet Clark Kent hands over his wallet to a Mugger. Was he coerced...

Mother, thy Gethsemane began at a Marriage at Cana Memory has its Sabbath tho' but mimesis is manna Must I make Silence my Saqi so Wi...

Dr. Srinivasan poses 4 questions for Free Market wallahs. 1. Is any exchange between two people in the absence of direct physical compuls...

This has to be a joke, even Landsburg can't be this stupid, but not all his followers seem to be in on it. Briefly, in Economics, a s...

For votaries of mystic religion, Kabir's poetry still has an immediacy and a relevance which even being sodomized by Michelle Obama on F...