Middle East

  • Mythology everywhere

    Mythology everywhere

    Mythological films stand between fantasy films on one hand and historical films on the other…

  • Beyond Hinduism: Is caste a religious or a regional problem?

    Beyond Hinduism: Is caste a religious or a regional problem?

    Which mythology – religious or secular – shapes the South Asian mind?…

  • Intolerance: the Movie

    Intolerance: the Movie

    Nobody is interested in countering the menace. Everybody seems to be more bothered about branding!…

  • New avatar for old crusades

    New avatar for old crusades

    For the Muslim world secularism, rationality, liberalism and democracy are just new avatars of their old Christian foes…

  • Cradle of Monotheism

    Cradle of Monotheism

    When empires came into being, emperors believed their god was the greater god, and he was the chosen man, and his people were the chosen people…

  • The yearning for a full stop

    The yearning for a full stop

    The body will have a full stop; but does the mind? Does the mind resist the death of the body and demands freedom from this physical tyranny?…

  • You still eat with your hands

    You still eat with your hands

    What is okay for me need not be okay for you.What is not acceptable is you putting down what is okay for me…

  • Common Corporate Culture Beyond Belief

    Common Corporate Culture Beyond Belief

    Does it really matter how we get there ? What matters is where we are trying to reach…

  • When Prester John Ruled India

    When Prester John Ruled India

    Did India really have a Christian king ?…