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The Nightmare Brigade #2: Into the Woods
No full textAccording to Professor Angus, Estaban was found one day outside of the Sleep Lab one day as a young boy. He was lost and abandoned. Angus and his son Tristan quickly welcomed him into their family and into their field of work, exploring nightmares and allowing patients a good and safe night’s sleep. But, Esteban has been having his own nightmares of late where he wakes up in his old house, reunited with his parents as if they were never separated. To wake up and return to his real life, Esteban must travel into the woods and face his own fears. Can The Nightmare Brigade help one of their own awake from their own nightmares
“Swimming Against Moral Currents: Gasping for Survival in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest”
No full textAbstractManjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest (1997) depicts despoiled and despondent characters whose change of fortunes compel them to careen between two conflicting cultures and squash their revered moral etiquettes as their vulnerable bodies are prey on and their lifestyles are distorted with impunity. Although the audience/readers may wriggle on Padmanabhan’s Harvest, circumstances drive her characters to swim against moral currents to survive in a world hanging on a string of economic collapse. Conscious of the dent their choices would put on their morality, these characters still surrender their rights to their own bodies and their pristine values to Ginni, a metaphor for western greed and exploitation. Ginni, via InterPlanta Services, tiptoes into the lives of impoverished Indian characters with promises of alleviating their poverty-stricken conditions, but quickly becomes a dour, barking orders to them with sternness, and leaving them battered and empty. Bruised by active resistance to western encroachment into their lives, Jaya defies the patriarchal system, even as her family members egg on her husband to give away everything for basic western needs
"Author Meets Critics: Predrag Cicovacki, Author of Gandhi's Footprints, Meets Critics Sanjay Lal and Carlo Filice"
No full textTwo critics respond to Predrag Cicovacki’s book, Gandi’s Footprints. Cicovacki opens the discussion by presenting his motivations for exploring a paradox, that Gandhi’s work is widely revered but not widely emulated. Cicovacki explores a resolution to the paradox by suggesting how Gandhi’s promising visions may be followed without being imitated, especially Gandhi’s insight that we must seek spiritual grounding for life in a materialistic world. Critic Sanjay Lal affirms Cicovacki’s insight but suggests that precisely because Gandhi’s aspirations for spiritual life were profoundly transformative we should take care not to dilute them into our conventional wisdoms. Critic Carlo Filice asks how Gandhi’s commitment to unified reality could be more clearly articulated once a distinction is drawn between spirit and matter, also how Gandhi’s nonviolence could manage to embrace important exceptions. In reply to critics, Cicovacki proposes an approach to Gandhi informed by the insights of Tagore
"Wrestling with the Modern State: Christopher Dawson and the Background to The Crisis of Western Education"
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