Cultural Insights

    What is the purpose of Justice?  This simple yet polarising question has underpinned raging debates for centuries.  To some, it is a totemic image as a punitive system.  Since the [...]

    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, [...]

    If we accept beauty, effectiveness, and artistic merit, are the foundations of musical appreciation, then we must accept that there are no universal truths in our ability to decern [...]

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

    We show deference to history’s great Polymath’s, which includes Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Isaac Newton.  Whilst we may feel there is much to separate [...]

      In her seminal essay ‘The Lost Tools of Learning’, Dorothy Sayers said “To have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an [...]

  Library.  noun.  a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an [...]

  Dante Alighieri.  His poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy has enraptured scholars and the literati for centuries.  His depictions of Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven [...]

  Hans Christian Andersen once said, “Where words fail, music speaks.”.  For those who have classical music fused into their everyday lives, it is hard to imagine a life without [...]

  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 [...]