Category: Books, Music, and Film to Wake Up Your Muse and Help You Change the World
Home, by Anoushka Shankar: Vehicles by Which the Essence Can Be Perceived
Artist: Anoushka Shankar Album: Home “To us, music can be a spiritual discipline on the path to self-realisation, for we follow the traditional teaching that sound is God–Nada Brahma: By this process individual consciousness can be elevated to a realm … Continue reading Home, by Anoushka Shankar: Vehicles by Which the Essence Can Be Perceived
Angrej: A Musical Guilty Pleasure From the Indian Diaspora
Angrej (Soundtrack) Amrinder Gill “Bhangra, if one would technically break it down, it is a male folk dance. It is a very specific rhythm, actually. So what is considered bhangra today is one of many rhythms, not exactly the … Continue reading Angrej: A Musical Guilty Pleasure From the Indian Diaspora
A Thousand Times Good Night: Raping Human Agony with a Telephoto Lens
Film: A Thousand Times Good Night Director: Erik Poppe “I wanted to tell my readers all over the world, ’This is what you should be concerned about.’ My skeptical retort to that … Continue reading A Thousand Times Good Night: Raping Human Agony with a Telephoto Lens
PARIS: Pause and Reflect
Our hearts go out to the victims (and their loved ones) of last night’s terror attacks in Paris. To add to the pain, a former American CIA officer is blaming the attacks on Islamic ideology and exhorting the powers that … Continue reading PARIS: Pause and Reflect
The Mindful Bard 