PERSPECTIVES
“I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart,” wrote…
“Louis,” a haunting short film by talented filmmaker Akshay Shirke, seeps deep into the viewer’s…
The depictions of Donald Trump and Dr. Muhammad Yunus as the demon Mahishasura in Durga…
Stars and Stampedes: The Price South Pays for Its Hero Worship and India’s Endless Tragedy of Crowds
The price of fandom paid in a suffocating crush of bodies. The recent tragedy in…
Inspired by true events, “2 Khet” (Two Farms) is a quiet but powerful short film…
In the vast landscape of cinema, some films entertain, others provoke thought, and a rare…
As I exited the Hyderabad airport in India, the city of my birth, I was…
I still remember the first time I read The Book Thief. Markus Zusak’s story of…
Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter has built a career on hate, targeting blacks, Mexicans, Jews, and…
In one of my favorite stories, Emperor Akbar sits down to a sumptuous lunch with…
In the Bay Area, rosemary seems to grow everywhere, wild and unbothered, spilling over fences,…
“The Israeli court psychiatrist who examined Eichmann found him a ‘completely normal man, more normal,…
