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Hur Adam: Tale of a Stoic Fortitude

Hur Adam: Tale of a Stoic Fortitude

BediuzzamanSaid Nursi (1877-1960), the Turkish mystic, can be considered as the spiritual founder of modern Turkey. At a time when scorn for tradition and faith was considered as the founding principle of Turkish nationalism in the country’s embrace of authoritarian modernity and secularism under Ataturk, Nursi revived faith in the tradition by leadinng people to […]

October 16, 2014 Anwar Mohammed
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Hamlet and his Kashmirian Odyssey

Hamlet and his Kashmirian Odyssey

Touchstones by which a Hamlet adaptation is measured are the ghost and the play within the play. Though these two appear only minimally on the stage, they drive the tempo of the play. Ghost is nothing but Hamlet’s subconscious which brings his hidden fears and oedipal angst out into his (as well as ours) conscious, […]

October 3, 2014 KS Shameer
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