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    Humans are prisoners.  They are anchored to their temporality.  Fated to live within the confines of their emotions.  They are free, but still compelled to think, to feel, to act.  [...]

    Indian art is like an ocean, and with growing audiences in the country and overseas, everyone’s vision and interests in art can be realised – Nanda Ediga.   This musing, [...]

  Are modern human frauds?  We certainly have an desire to impress.  Social media has perpetuated our yearning for acceptance and intellectualism.  When did the cosmetic of how something [...]

    Simply called the Commedia, Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century magnum opus has fascinated scholars since its conception.  It has produced many artistic, literary, and [...]

  What is it about knowing what someone else likes to read?  It’s quite an intimate thing.  For me, I covered 20+ books last year.  Forget those challenges of “a book a week”.  This is [...]

      Prophet, social-revolutionary, spiritualist, eccentric.  These are a few of the characterisations that peers and historians have imbued on William Blake, the Romantic poet, [...]

  Upon entering the National Gallery room sixty-two, nestled on the right-hand side, you could almost be forgiven for missing the unassuming ‘St. Jerome in his Study’.  This [...]

For me, 2018 has been a year of continued personal growth and the creation of incredible new chapters in life.  My thirst for knowledge and cultural experiences continues unabated.  Six months [...]

  In today’s modern world, we need a new lens in which to view society’s and their cultures.  Brian Keeble surmised that “there are powerful economic and social forces of [...]

  It was the early sixteenth century, and a battle of cultural ideals was emerging.  A complex synergy of sex, landscapes, and romanticism was manifesting itself through increasingly daring [...]