Articles by Karuwaki
The Man Who Refused to Bow!
Everyone remembers Thomas More for a book he wrote about a country that does not exist — UTOPIA, an imagined island nation he invented to hold up a mirror to the greed and folly of his own age.…
The Man Who Wanted to Disappear!
(On Kafka's birthday, and the strange afterlife he never asked for) Today, July 3rd, is Franz Kafka's birthday. He would have turned 143. He asked Max Brod to burn everything — every diary, ev…
Netroutsav — Festival of the Eyes!
Netroutsav, literally festival of the eyes, marks the complete healing, spiritual rebirth, and first public appearance of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Goddess Subhadra after fifteen days of i…
Mata Kalika:When the Sangeet Martand Called Upon the Dark Mother!
(click here to listen) The goddess Kali does not wait to be invited — and neither does this composition. Mata Kalika does not ask for your reverence. It arrives, assumes it, opens a do…
Different Strokes,Same Blood!
Navigating the complicated father-son dynamic. Few relationships are as fraught as father and son — and Indian history offers some of its starkest case studies: duty curdling into rivalry, amb…
We Forget to Celebrate: Bloomsday, Ulysses, and the Reading India Skipped!
Every June 16th, Dublin turns into a 1904 theme park. More than a hundred events across the city mark the day on which Ulysses is set, and people dress in Edwardian fashion, with the straw boater hat…