Oct 18, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
One aim of Sapphire And Steel was to transpose the ghost stories out of the Victorian context into contemporary places, the still inhabited or the recently abandoned. In the final assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at a small service station. Corporate logos –...
Aug 30, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Let’s take a second to consider what we associate with the word practical. If we look for its etymology, we quickly run into notions like this: Practical: from the Greek practikos via Latin to the French practique and finally to English. Practical is to move from...
Aug 9, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
A Report On The Banality Of Evil For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from...
Apr 19, 2025 | Non-Fiction |
What is life like when you don’t know what it is you’re marrying? Harshly put, it implies you are naive. Gullible. Didn’t read that small print. A terrible deal occurs in the fairy tale The Handless Maiden, when a father barters away his daughter to a demon by not...
Apr 12, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
I am not going to speak about the demise of the free press in India. All of us gathered here know all about that. Nor am I going to speak of what has happened to all the institutions that are meant to act as checks and balances in the functioning of our democracy. I...
Feb 22, 2025 | Non-Fiction |
The stories say that if we take only the Road of the Village—the ordained track—we risk perpetuating an infantile grandiosity, firmly anchored to the ego but lacking relationship to the soul, the very relationship the Road of the Forest offers. This is a dangerous...
