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Ours is a moment of doomsday prophets. Ideas are no longer getting importance in our civilization today; we believe in action which would bring direct advantage to our day-to-day lives.

    To understand the origins of “Anti-Semitism” we must first find the origins of “Semitism.” We find the first use of the term semitic in a

PART I   This provocatively titled post is an "appendix" of sorts, for the cross-cultural story "The Agonized Womb of Consciousness." Rather than shy

Comparative Linguistics Has Unsavoury Roots, Here's Why by Avatans Kumar - Jan 11, 2021 09:27 AM Representative image of old Latin text Snapshot This line of thinking allowed Europeans to spread colonialism throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas. In their exhaustive review of researcher Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn’s book Archives of Origins, philosopher-Indologist Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee examine the emergence of racism in the humanities. They argue that Western linguistics (referred simply as linguistics from here on) and anthropology were not separate fields of inquiry, at ...

How the Parsis Shaped Theatre in Colonial Bombay Flops, frauds or community disapproval did not prove obstacles to the growth of the theatre enterprise. Elphinstone Circle in Bombay in the 1870s. Photo: Lee-Warner Collection/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA When one thinks of Horniman Circle – the ring of elegant old buildings in south Mumbai – today, several associations spring to mind: the glossy storefronts of Starbucks and Hermes – the temples of neoliberal globalism; men snoozing on the garden’s shaded benches – a respite from Mumbai’s prickly afternoon heat; and...