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Laurels and Shadows: The Moral Burden of Literary Recognition
14+ hour, 36+ min ago (213+ words) P John J Kennedy, educator and political analyst based in Bengaluru. Besides being renowned artists, French Actress Sarah Bernhardt and American actress Eartha Kitt have something in common. They were victims of sexual abuse and harassment at work. Their lived…...
The rise of Virtual influencers
14+ hour, 57+ min ago (454+ words) Heard of Jessica Forster? Young, beautiful, and a soldier in the US army. Within a few months her MAGA followers galloped into millions. Then the bubble burst. Her image was pulled down. She wasn't real! She was computer-generated." Of course,…...
$4 Gasoline is Less Than Half the Story
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (823+ words) Although I expected the war on Iran to be a disaster, I didn't expect the Trump administration to be implicitly conceding defeat after barely a month. Yet that's where we are: Does this look to you as if we have…...
SIR Chasms Across ‘Nation’: Feelings Reading Suraj Gogoi’s Commentary
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (1126+ words) Dead Baby AYLAN "mocked" by Charlie Hebdo (written words: what would have become of little Aylan had he grown up?) Interestingly, some years later, from that same France a song that could become the selection from France for contesting Eurovision…...
Dissecting Dhurandhar: Facts, Fiction and Propaganda
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (218+ words) by Mohd Ziyaullah Khan26/03/2026 Dhurandhar: The Revenge did not wait to be remembered; it arrived while its predecessor was still being felt. Released on March 19, 2026, just months after the first film's December" The developments in the Middle East started haunting India…...
A Time to Rise: In anger, in hope, in whatever gets you out the door on Saturday!
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (1375+ words) Want just a touch more anger, just at the pettiness of these guys? The Trump administration, because it can, is about to'remove a bike lane'in DC The National Park Service will soon start removing a protected bike lane that runs…...
Dhurandhar: The Revenge — Selling Hate Sentiment, Power, and Politics on the Big Screen
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (914+ words) The Business of Blurring Reality and Fiction The film's biggest strength is also its most troubling strategy: it gives fiction the authority of reality. By weaving together references to the ISI, Dawood Ibrahim's network, narcotics trade, and terror financing, Dhurandhar…...
Identity In Wartime And The Mirage Of Normalcy
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1244+ words) Given the reality that my father's family history was unknown, there has been an x-factor regarding my genetic heritage. My father, evincing a life-long orphan's rage, insisted he did not possess the slightest desire to discover the birth parents who…...
Re-evaluating the Relevance of “Dulce et Decorum Est”
1+ week, 3+ day ago (359+ words) Dulce et Decorum Est "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,And towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many…...
A Refutation of Mark Durie’s Theology of Rupture and Its Zionist Ideological Foundations
1+ week, 3+ day ago (450+ words) The Anthropology of Dignity: Karamah, Fitra, and the Theistic Humanist Subject "Adl and Qist: Radical Accountability as the Axis of the Cosmos The Ontology of Love: Rahmah, Wala, and the Covenant of Universal Mercy Reason, Science, and the Quranic Covenant…...