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Larry the cat
Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation.  But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…
POLITICS Poetry
Temples of Memory, Monuments of Forgetting
There is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year.   —Arun Kolatkar, verse 22, Jejuri, 1976 Located in the ancient city of Ayodhya in northern India, the Ayodhya Temple, is one of the significant spiritual landmarks.  Revered as the birthplace of Lord Rama, a central figure in the Hindu…
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Canada at the Edge of Its Idea
     “Having to wait until one’s death to be allowed to live is really quite an ontological feat.”                       - Robert Musil, Austrian Novelist, Journalist and Writer Like a phantom limb, the unfinished The Man Without Qualities haunts the landscape of modern literature. It is…
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On Palestine And Narrative: We are in a new territory
“Gaza does not propel people to cool contemplation; rather, she propels them to erupt and collide with the truth.”                                                         — Mahmoud Darwish, Silence for Gaza (1973) Recognizing the Stranger - On Palestine and Narrative, a slim volume of 80-odd pages brings together Isabella Hammad’s the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture delivered at Columbia University nine…
ART Fiction
In a Genocide Words Die First
"In times of dread, artists must never remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That's how civilizations heal."        — Toni Morrison in No Place for Self-Pity,…
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Deb’s Dos Passos Echo: Tracing India’s Descent
Book Review "Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy"  — John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand On, 1941 Siddhartha Deb's Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and The Fall of India, published by Haymarket Books in 2024, is an urgent, incisive exploration of India's socio-political transformation under…
ART
Elegy for Beauty: Memory and the Ecology of Presence
“Land art involves a relationship between art and nature that refuses to separate the two, asserting that art is as much a part of the land as the land itself is a part of art.”                             - Lucy Lippard in Landscript 7: Land and Environmental Art, 2007 Christian Bernard Singer's work is a poetic testament…
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Voltaire’s Bastards Strike Again: How the Tyranny of Rationalism Lost America’s Vote
“Democratic systems may hold elections, but those elections are largely  ceremonial, moments in which the public is invited to endorse decisions already  taken by small groups.” — John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards, p. 52. Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a seismic shift in American politics. Regardless of one's political alignment,…