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If Theft Was Treated Like Rape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCBusz78Odc&t=9s This video represents the treatment of rape survivors in the Indian context....

Bells of Vrindavan

Holi, Vrindavan, India (This picture has not been edited.) If you like my work, please upvote and comment. Check out my work on literature and photography. Why ...

The Festival of Colours - 5

Holi, Vrindavan, India (This picture has not been edited.) If you like my work, please upvote and comment. Check out my work on literature and photography. 1. W...

The Festival of Colours - 4

Have you chosen your path? One sits inside the temple, the other roams with the temple within. Holi, Vrindavan, India...

The Festival of Colours - 3

Take my hand Holi, Vrindavan, India...

The Festival of Colours - 2

Dignity in Poverty Holi, Vrindavan, India...

Englishization of Petrarchan Convention: Sidney’s Sonnets

In Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella (1591), the names Astrophil and Stella mean Star-lover and star, suggesting the impossibility of their u...

Was it Cleopatra who said, “Let Rome in Tiber Melt”?

by Girolamo Macchietti The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance ...

Draupadi’s Grave Mistake

“Go into the assembly and ask if Dharmaraja had become a slave before he staked me.” – Irawati Karve, Draupadi: Introduction, Yuganta Irawati Karve’s Draupadi i...

Aristophanes’ Audience

William Missouri Down, Lou Anne Wright and Erik Ramsey, together compiled The Art of Theatre in which they use the example of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 BCE)...

Women in Hard Times

“Domestic ideology, or the cult of domesticity, can be defined as a series of related ideas that characterized the family home as the particular domain of the w...

The festival of Holi in Vrindavan, India

This photo was taken in the morning light of a small town called Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. This is no normal town, but a religious one. Lord K...

A NOT SO MODEST PROPOSAL BY JONATHAN SWIFT

In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a Juvenalian satirical pamphlet anonymously, titled A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland f...

Why (,) monster?

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) directly quotes Milton’s Paradise Lost, “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From...

An Outsider, Domestic Slave, and Woman: Medea’s Didacticism

Euripides’ Medea (first performed. 431 BCE) is based upon the myth of Jason and Medea. Playwrights often borrowed from myths and produced brilliant works of art...

You’re Being Brainwashed: Barthes’ ‘Mythologies’

“This myth of human ‘condition’ rests on a very old mystification, which always consists in placing Nature at the bottom of History. Any classic humanism postul...

Why so serious, Johnson?: 'London' vs The Dark Knight Trilogy

"I'm Gotham's reckoning." Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. “THO’ Grief and Fondness in my Breast rebel, When injur’d THALES bids the Town farewel...