Month: January 2018
NEW YORK STATES OF MIND
Visual Spaces
With an inquisitive lens, Marion Valladares Smith an India-born New Yorker evokes the festival of art on and above the streets of the Big Apple. Here’s a selection from around the East Village.…[Read More]…
RECALLING THE MORAL QUEST
Bookshelf
In his work on the absence of moral sensibilities in education, Avijit Pathak meditates on its impact on young minds as rampant consumerism and competition turn students into mere commodities themselves. He is not a pessimist though and suggests ways to a moral recovery. The Introduction from the book outlines the universe of the problematic. …[Read More]…
I, ROBOT MITRA, FROM DYSTOPIA!
That’s Life!!!
Does ‘Mitra’ presage a utopia of programmed, ethnically cleansed humanoids? Could Ms. Trump and PM Modi imagine a world of robots? Can we? Ashoak Upadhyay mashes fact and fiction for a goofy trip down that road.…[Read More]…