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“Man of Honor”: Liability and Responsibility in John McDonagh’s film The Forgiven (2022)

January 17, 2023 Padmaja Challakere 2

Visual Spaces

The Forgiven is a dark film that has drama, suspense, and visual artistry, at first glance, homage to Bertolucci and Antonioni. More importantly, it asks: What rules or norms of truth determine our burden of responsibility? Then, the central puzzle: Who has the power to forgive? Is forgiveness the end of punishment? Padmaja Challakere reviews.…[Read More]…

Racism, Nonkilling, and Shared Humanity

October 2, 2022 Bill Bhaneja 0

Between The Lines

Ending racism is essentially about making each person equal, respectful and dignified as the other. To achieve this to the fullest, the fight has continued globally in tackling racism at the international, national and individual levels. Bill Bhaneja provides an overview of anti-racism and peace-building through the lens of Universal Rights, Nonkilling and Human Dignity …[Read More]…

Cuba’s Medical Internationalism: A Regenerative Humanism

August 30, 2022 Don Fitz 0

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“Sanctions” as an economic blockade were first applied by the United States to the small island of Cuba in February 1962 constituting the most comprehensive and brutal blockade of trade/economic relations in human history. Yet Cuba did not buckle. In fact it has become a shining example of regenerative/radical humanism. John Kirk’s book on its medical internationalism explains how and why. A review by Don Fitz.…[Read More]…

S. Jeyapragasam: The Great Tree. Paul Schwartzentruber Remembers a Gandhian

August 20, 2022 Paul Schwartzentruber 0

Between The Lines

Paul Schwartzentruber, a Canadian pays tribute to “one of the great blessings of my life that I encountered and then came to know—even though in my later years—Dr. S. Jeyapragasam”. JP, for the author, a seeker, “was not just a ‘Gandhian’ in the loose way that iconic metaphor is still tossed around in India. He embodied, like a true disciple, the values, sympathies and beliefs in human self-transformation that Gandhi himself had embodied.” …[Read More]…

A Brief Journalistic History of Women of the Beat Generation

July 20, 2022 Nancy Grace 0

Personal Notes

The 25-year period in which Beat developed and flourished in the United States and then spread around the globe—roughly the end of World War II to the beginning of the seventies—is complex, but for women, in particular, this quarter century marks major struggles for equality. Nancy M. Grace traces the contours of women Beat poets’ and artists’ journeys. Curated by Jennie Skerl…[Read More]…

Abert Luthuli:: A Man of Hope

February 12, 2022 Christopher Lee 0

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Albert Luthuli (1898-1967) became South Africa’s leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience techniques, framed apartheid as a crime against humanity. Robert Vinson’s biography hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present. Christopher Lee reviews …[Read More]…