Allah Baksh’s Mahabharata Artworks as Dialogue Between Painter’s Imagination and Poet’s Song: ADI PARVA (THE BEGINNING)

October 10, 2023 Alok Bhalla 0

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In the Adi Parva, Vyasa comments on the nature of the epic he has composed, its structure and its intention. Addressing Brahma, Vyasa says that he has ‘imagined’ a ‘poem’; a visionary ‘history…’ Allah Baksh’s Mahabharata neither begins by illustrating the long prelude about the visionary form and ahimsic intent of Vyasa nor by first visualising some act of heroism and sacred revelation.…[Read More]…

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‘Oppenheimer,’ J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the University of California

September 10, 2023 Tony Platt 0

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The film Oppenheimer and subsequent publicity focuses primarily on the individual actions and angst of a “Great But Troubled Man” but scant attention has been paid to how a leading public university participated in creating a weapon of mass destruction that changed the means of warfare forever. Public Intellectual and historian Tony Platt on the hidden facets of the troubled history of University of California, Berkeley – known locally as “Cal” and worldwide as “Berkeley”…[Read More]…

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