Author: Anil Reynold Dsouza
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A SPIKE OF META HAZE: A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE SOUL AND I
This morning I breakfasted on eggs, made bulls-eye. I prefer runny yolk and near raw albumen. Some would call it soul food. That got me thinking about the soul. So, what is this ‘soul’, I thought? The Buddhists shrug it off, saying there is no such thing. A few other faiths swear by it –…
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An Introduction to Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Draupadi’ and the Emergence of the Subaltern as her own Rescuer
In the Mahabaratha epic Yudhishthira, the Pandava prince, and a plural husband of the princess Draupadi, loses everything in the episode which narrates the story of the Game of Dice; a familiar and recounted episode from the great epic and one which plays a determinant role in the war between the cousins. In a pivotal…
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O Captain, My Captain! Selected Vignettes on Social Acceptance, Identity and Personal Flourishing amongst Adolescents and Young Adults
‘O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain my Captain.’ These self-characterising poetic lines which includes a surreal invitation…
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Beyond Workplace Surveillance & Intrusion: A contemporary culture perspective on Well-Being @ Work through Augusto Boal’s Theatre of The Oppressed
While sipping my morning cuppa, I chanced upon an intriguing article (Khaira, March 4, 2020) published in an online journal sometime back, which spoke of sanitation workers in Chandigarh who are compelled to wear GPS trackers as part of a ‘Human Efficiency Tracking System’. The wearable tracker registers the movement of the worker by geo-fencing their…