What literature and language tell us about the history of loneliness

Is the idea as old as human nature if the word began to be used only recently?

Is loneliness our modern malaise? Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the most common pathology he saw during his years of service “was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness.” Chronic loneliness, some say, is like “smoking 15 cigarettes a day.” It “kills more people than obesity.” Because loneliness is now considered a […]

Creativity has no national, racial or religious boundaries: Shahzia Sikander

Artist Shahzia Sikander is the first Pakistani-American to be inducted in the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian (2017) and the first Pakistani to win the inaugural US National Medal of Art in 2012. She received Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for her pioneering contribution to field of Miniature Painting in 2005.  In 2006, she was appointed Young Global World Leader […]

This book by a palliative care specialist is necessary reading to understand death

Kathryn Mannix, who spent most of her career working with terminally ill patients and their loved ones, writes about her experiences with death in a new book.

  And those of us who look after very sick people sometimes need to debrief too. It keeps us well, and able to go back to the workplace to be rewounded in the line of duty. Cognitive therapist and palliative medicine pioneer Kathryn Mannix’s With the End In Mind is a collection of medical narrative […]

A Chinese Revolutionary, Reinventing Himself in American Exile

 As futile as it can feel, there’s a lot to be said for frustration. Having our desires and expectations thwarted lets us know where our selves end and where others’ begin. “People become real to us by frustrating us,” the psychoanalyst (and master aphorist) Adam Phillips writes. “If they don’t frustrate us they are merely […]

Philosophy of the Expository and Censorial Justice

  The first question that comes to the mind is that, what is jurisprudence? Is it the science of law, philosophy of law or knowledge of law? The axiomatic question which arises is that what is the relationship of expositorial and censorial jurisprudence and justice. In other words what are the dynamic contents and propositions […]

Biography that Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall

By: DWIGHT GARNER There have been many biographies of Tiger Woods, and surely there will be many more. Some are friendly and shyly philosophical, like David Owen’s early “The Chosen One,” from 2001. Others are curmudgeonly and expert about golf, like Tom Callahan’s “His Father’s Son” (2010). Amid these books, “Tiger Woods,” the new biography […]

In ‘Godsong,’ a New Poem That’s 2,000 Years Old

By: PARUL SEHGAL Imagine, if you can, a book beloved by Simone Weil and Steve Bannon. An apologia for war embraced as a classic of pacifism. A holy book admired by scientists. Thoreau took it with him to Walden Pond. Himmler carried a copy in his pocket. Whitman supposedly kept his under his pillow as […]

Reading the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is to be reminded of his love for everything

The acclaimed Hindi poet, who was also a critic and essayist, died on March 19, 2018.

I have a favourite poem. Not necessarily a favourite poet, but a single short poem that demands that I hold on to it, remember it, like a talisman of sorts. The poem is Kedarnath Singh’s “Aana Jab Samay Mile”. I found the poem at a juncture when my link with Hindi literature had all but […]

An Aspiring Athlete Yearns For Support!

  Ganderbal: Every morning Nisar Dar run strides on the deserted roads of Ganderbal. He race walks 10 kms every morning on rutted hilly roads in order to increase his running speed and this is not the end of his daily practice schedule that continues till late evening at regular intervals. Nisar sets a target […]