(Image Credit: Subbu Publications) The former Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University, Daniel H H Ingalls, is known to have referred to Mysore Hiriyanna as “the great scholar who never wrote a useless word.” An authority in the disciplines of aesthetics and Indian philosophy, Hiriyanna strove to lend clarity to the complex. Setting the … Continue reading The Mission Of Philosophy

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Paul Auster’s “Bloodbath Nation” is a cathartic jeremiad on an insidious phenomenon that has gripped the world’s biggest economy. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Auster informs us, released some statistical detail which makes for some sobering reading. Annually, close to 40,000 Americans succumb to gunshot wounds, while 80,000 more are … Continue reading Bloodbath Nation – Paul Auster

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Christopher Butler, once described postmodernism  and its advocates as a “loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party.” Now in an extremely accessible and compelling introduction to postmodernism, he explains the rationale underlying such a proclamation. Postmodernism quintessentially refers to a careful cultivation of an attitude of … Continue reading Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction – Christopher Butler

(Inage Credit: http://www.amazon.com) At the core of Niven Govinden’ s “Diary of a Film”, is another book. William Maxwell’s “The Folded Leaf”, influences, embellishes and informs the plot that revolves around the main protagonist, a homosexual film auteur and the narrator, whom everyone addresses as ‘Maestro’, two promising actors, Tom and Lorien who have essayed … Continue reading Diary of a Film – Niven Govinden