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Editorial Issue 8 April 2012
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Review Issue 8 April 2012
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Open Page Issue 8 April 2012
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Sansho the Bailiff: an Appreciation:
Sansho the Bailiff is widely regarded as among the greatest of Kenji Mizoguchi’s films. At the centre of the film is the male protagonist’s discovery of various truths through certain maxims learned from his father, one of them being that all people are created equal. This may sound like a well-worn cliché but this essay examines why this commonplace assertion packs so much power and the meaning of Mizoguchi’s moral vision.
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Wound of Faith: Religion and Identity in Dharmaputr (1961) and Zakhm (1998):
This essay is about Hindu-Muslim relation in two Hindi films separated by over three decades and dealing with two key events – Partition and the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
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A Concise History of God in Twenty Paragraphs:
A highly speculative essay about the origins of monotheism and the subsequent conflict between monotheism and polytheism in the old world
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The Elephant and the Dragon: A Young Indian’s Travels in Three Chinese Cities:
A travelogue by a young Indian journeying through X’ian, Beijing and Shanghai.
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Local Tourism in India and China: A Study in Contrasts:
Even a short tour of a province in an alien country can provide insights into how an entire system is run. This is a study of local tourism in Indian and China after a trip to Yunnan province and what it suggests about state power in the two countries.
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