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Culture Vulture

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Essay by Tapas Sarkar;  Root is identity. We are where we belong to. Any diversion is temporary; to gather knowledge and degree, or to explore the world desiring for change is temporarily significant to strengthen the origin existence. Besides, permanence is not stable rather continuously rejuvenating the memory and the truest sense of the origin existence and living in a space with common human harmony. To be in that space is necessary whether that is after a long time at a successful life or a great awakening just before death. Otherwise, forgetting that space and the origin existence is undoubtedly false living, a life without societal values, social relations, human cohesiveness, which is merely a self-centred mania.    No doubt, individual choice of identity, value, thought, philosophy, religion, or any kind of belief whether that is political or apolitical is a freely existing variable; it should be this way, which means any individual's freedom should be free from ...

Can We Change?

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Essay; Tapas Sarkar:  Photo credit: pixabay.com   Suffering, suffering, and suffering…We are suffering, of course indomitable. Most importantly Human beings are suffering today. This is the matter to think and re-think, this is the knowledge to be taught and re-taught about. In this situation, on one side, we are severely suffering from COVID-19 and its tremendous consequences, on the other side we are growing in ignorance and inaptitude; we are still unlearned pseudo-humans. We are blind, rather too busy to prove ourselves superior to man (Human being itself), to other lives of nature and to Nature itself. We see ourselves as perfect critics discriminating ourselves as rich and poor, white and black, male and female, believer and atheist, political and apolitical, right and left, illiterate and literate, even as human and Nature. Nature whom few of us loved to call ‘Mother’ is now being separated from us, polluted by us, parodied by us which is the real intellectual decay of ...

Satyajit Ray and the Unique Identity of Indian Film

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  Essay; Tapas Sarkar : (Source: Wikipedia) Satyajit Ray and the Unique Identity of Indian Film Introduction Film or Cinema is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating- or indoctrinating- citizens. The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India. Cinema is immensely popular in India from the beginning era of film. The early 20 th  century was a golden age for Indian film. There were several impacts of  great film directors on film making and development, like K.A. Abbas, Chetan Anand, Ritwik Ghatak , Bimal Roy , Satyajit Ray etc.  Among  them the contribution of Satyajit Roy is remarkable. He leads the Indian film to the global stage with its own identity and new breath. And Indian Cinema is now a global enterprise. Early Life Of Ray Ray was born into an illustrious family in C alcutta(kolkata) in 1921.His grandfather, Upendra Kishor Ray Choudhary, was a publisher, ...

Artists are alienated

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Tapas Sarkar; Essay:  The creation of an artist is either based on imagination or reality or can be mixed with fantasy and reality. The image of imagination and the concrete knowledge of reality is directly reflected oh human psychology. And all these procedures and environments happen in/within a society. Therefore, what human psychology represents is simply the simulation of the social exhibition. So, it can be said that the creation of art, by artists, is a simulation of society. The human with their sense, sentient, and conscience are the medium of this socio-psychological system of simulation. This representation of simulation is not fixed; it changes at different ages after several perceptions of generations. Therefore, the definition, form, meaning, and representation change from time to time. What can be art to someone can be destructive sense to others, or some others' perceptions of life can be the true presentation of art.       Now, why the artists a...

On Antoine de Saint's imagination

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Essay; Tapas Sarkar; Imagination cannot be excluded from reality. In other words we can say that reality is the concrete reflection of imagination. When our bodily existence is concrete, then the mental or psycho existence is imaginary (conscious, subconscious, superconscious). As we are, fundamentally, made of body and mind. Therefore, our exclusive true existence is the blend of both these conditions complementarity. With imagination, Antoine de Saint's novella "The Little Prince" reflects this philosophical motto providing fruitful meanings of experience.       The story begins with an aviator who is lonely and frustrated in a desert after his plane crush, where he finds a little prince whose experience of life is a little strange to an earthly man like the aviator, but the little prince's  experience is important to formulate a revolution in the aviator's struggle. Here the little prince can be the aviator himself and the aviator can be interpreted as the re...

"Religious Fanaticism is the Other Name of Terrorism" by Tapas Sarkar

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Tapas Sarkar; Research Scholar; The word Religion derives from both Old French and Anglo Norman language which means respecting righteousness, morality, and sanctity with the reverence to the gods. Unfortunately, religion is often associated with terror and decay; among the major catalysts in manipulating world peace, the atrocities of religious conflicts are prominent. The nature of the religious atrocity or crisis is diverse in different ages and crucial in several geographical continents. In present age, religious fundamentalism or fanaticism is the modern form of religious crisis (terror); it not only kills the innocent people for the sake of religion, it dominates over other’s culture, tradition, and identity, with political purposes. History has always been the documented witness of such savage crises. Therefore, Contemporary terrorisms of religious fundamentalists are the extreme threat to world peace.  The oldest ancient civilizations, the Mesopotamian Civilization, the I...

Why Should I Write?

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  Essay;  Tapas Sarkar; Expression of feelings is indispensably significant to communicate meanings, senesces, and sensibilities in the society. Can we imagine a society without language or any kind of communication? No, we cannot. Communication is the basis of social construction. We can say, if there had not been the system of communication, there would not be harmony or the concept of living societal life. Through communication different ideas, experiences, struggles, and solutions are shared among different individuals; the individuals in a society with generations, among generations, and after generations prolong those values; thus, a society is established with the participations of individuals' knowledge gathered through different types of communications, verbal and non-verbal. Writing is an appropriate way of communication, the best verbal communication. In one side, it shares clear and accurate message to the receiver. On the other hand, the message of writing is more...