Articles by Karuwaki
The Ones Who Never Fully Come Back!
On Raakh, Method Acting, and The Scars That Don't Show. Raakh is streaming on Prime Video right now. It is based on the 1978 Ranga-Billa case — the kidnapping and murder of siblings Geeta Chopr…
The Shell of Shani: Form, Silence, and Cosmic Time!
As a child, I picked up a smooth, dark stone from a riverbank and handed it to my mother saying, "Ma, this is Shiva." She didn't laugh. She placed it in our puja room, where it is worshipped to this …
WHERE THE EARTH IS THE GODDESS!
The Smiling Mother of Hassan India’s Most Extraordinary Temple Opens Its Doors Just Once a Year. There is a place in Karnataka where a goddess chooses to live not in carved stone, not in gilde…
An Incomplete Field Guide to the Bengali Gentleman: The Bhadralok in His Native Habitat!
(With Footnotes, Digressions, and Appropriate Melancholy) The Bhadralok (homo bengalicus respectable) is a creature of remarkable consistency. Across one hundred and fifty years of seismic historica…
Savitri: The Epic That Wrote Its Author!
(On Sri Aurobindo’s Supreme Work — Its Brilliance, Its Power, and Why It Matters) A couple of years ago, I found myself in Auroville -- that strange, luminous township in Tamil Nadu th…
The Essence of Savitri!
Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri is considered one of the longest epic poems in the English language, consisting of nearly 24,000 lines, making Savitri an incarnation of Divine Grace who battles Dea…