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One of the debates that emerged from the brutal and vastly covered in media, The Delhi Gang Rape (2012), was if Bollywood promoted rape culture through its item numbers critiquing the male gaze on women’s bodies and questioning whether the hyper-sexualization of Bollywood’s actresses served to normalize sexual harassment. The new trend being, the asexual, good Indian girl (who ultimately is coveted by the hero) constructed against the sexualized item-girl and one instantly thinks of the…

THE SURYA VAMSA The Ikshvakus are a sublime race of men and women famed in the Puranas and Epics. It owes it’s origins to the great patriarch of the same namesake, Ikshvaku, who was the son of Vaivasvat Manu. He, in, turn was the son of Kashyapa Muni who in turn was the son of Marichi, the son of Brahma. The Solar dynasty comprised of the three lines of Ayodhya, Videha, Vaisala and the Saryatas. Ikshvaku was the first king of Ayodhya, and his father, Manu Vaivasvata, gave him Madhyadesa. He had…

Mahabharata has the honor of being the longest epic in world literature but it is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems. It is an embodiment of a scripture which provides traditional, ritual and mythical ground for modern Hindus. In a patriarchal society, men set the rules and…

They arrived at Gray Village, renamed for the Knight whose castle it surrounded, late in the afternoon. They only had two horses between the three of them and they took turns doubling up, Neph was on foot, no horse even if had been big enough to carry the four-hundred pound ape, would have tolerated him on its back, but he had no trouble keeping up at a travel pace. Josie and Chandi now knew all about Neph and they agreed to help foster the illusion that he was a full intelligent. Gertrude had…

A Reaction to Narayan’s Dislocating Cultures. Uma Narayan’s article raises multiple questions about how third world issues are perceived by western bodies. In her article, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, she looks at the “‘effects’ that national contexts have on the construction of feminist issues and the ways in which understandings of issues are then affected by border crossings across national boundaries” and how culture is invoked in explaining the…

Intertextuality and Body-Mind Duality No matter how modern society might insist upon the ideas of copyright and intellectual property, no person’s work is truly his or her own. Texts ancient and new, contemporary or separated by centuries, invariably influence and build upon each other. In Ab Urbe Condita, Livy’s depiction of the Carthaginian leader Hannibal interacts with the depiction of the Roman conspirator Catiline featured in Bellum Catilinae, a work by the historian Sallust, a…

Lucrezia Borgia (1972 in Vancouver), Rosalinde in Fledermaus and Massenet's Esclarmonde (1973 and 1974 individually in San Francisco), Leonora in Il trovatore (1975 in San Francisco) and The Cheerful Dowager (1976 in Vancouver), Puccini's Suor Angelica, Sita in Massenet's Le return for capital invested de Lahore (1977 in Sydney and Vancouver), Electra in Idomeneo and Amalia in Verdi's I masnadieri (1979 and 1980 separately in Sydney). In 1980 she played out the piece of Rosalinde (Kick the…

What does it mean to say that brain states and processes are identical with the mental states and processes? Mention four objections to this theory along with Smart’s reply to the same. The brain-mind identity theory (also known as physicalism) claims that the mental states and processes are identical to the processes and states of the brain. This does not, however, imply that the mind is the brain or vice versa. For instance, in saying that ‘Tom has a good mind’, we are not referring to his…

We’re Leaner and Greener Conference collateral and related information were made available to attendees electronically on the conference website, app and USB flash drive. After the event, presentations were posted on the ATPCO Customer Center. As a result, the amount of printed material distributed at the Global Conference was the lowest ever. In addition to being greener, paper reduction is another proof point that ATPCO is becoming more tech-focused. Selected Customer Comments • ATPCO should…

Like Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya(Suraiya), Shashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Prawar Jhabwalla and Githa Hariharan Mukherjee exposes many facets of feminism, encompassing agitation for equal opportunity, sexual autonomy and right to self determination. We find the same in the novel Desirable Daughters where the heroine Tara ventures to widen her horizons in matters of marriage, love and sex; redefines her roles as wife and mother. Social identities are far from getting fixed in some…