The Long Weeping – By Jessie van Eerden ( An excerpt )
( The Long Weeping - In this collection of portraits, the eye is the vital “lamp of the body,” a spiritual organ...
Art Photography by Carl Scharwath
Artist Statement:
I use photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all of art, is to evoke...
Quest for Glory and Quest for Word – (Part-2) – By Asya Pekurovskaya
By Asya Pekurovskaya
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Quest for Glory and Quest for Word: Case of Bro and Case of Bo is a 156,000-word mixed genre manuscript that weaves together autobiography, essay,...
Haider and Hemanta: The Complex Cultural Registers in Indian Cinematic Adaptations of Shakespeare
By Pradipta Mukherjee
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been produced in a multiplicity of languages, all over the world - in English, Bengali, Hindi, Danish, Greek,...
The Rise of the Cli-Fi Literary Genre – By Danny Bloom
As the 20th century began to morph into the 21st century in the late 1990s, the global landscape of cultural production started to teem...
Two Ancient Sumerian Elegies in English – By Tikva Hecht
Author's Note:
These elegies were originally written in Sumerian and are dated circa 1700 BC, making them among the oldest known written texts in the...
Concrete Art – By Mario Loprete
I live in Catanzaro, a small Calabrian city in the south of Italy. It’s a beautiful place to live in.
If geographically it's a great...
Art Photography by Carl Scharwath
Artist Statement:
I use photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all of art, is to evoke...
Other tongues: the stunning lingual diversity of India – By Karthik Venkatesh
The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists the 22 official languages of India. These are the languages that the government of India officially...
The Bishop of Battlefields – By Vladimir Lionter
As a chess teacher, I often find myself in front of curious young minds, eager to grasp the symbolism behind the game’s iconic...