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“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason,
but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings...
Survivors: Romantic love, the writing life and my heroine, Virginia Woolf
Her hair came undone
somehow in the water. And how it spread out. It was a flame. It was something
significant fanning, framing her beautiful, wonderful...
Defying the Herd: “Personhood,” War and the Triumph of Peace
Art, we may learn from Picasso, is "the
lie that lets us see the truth." In this connection, Swiss artist Alberto
Giacometti's iconic sculpture, Man
Pointing, appears...
Alone in the dark: The Sylvia Plath Effect and the Northern Areas poet
I was 16 when I first attempted to take my own life. I was seeing a
psychiatrist (he of the Einsteinian-hair, he had studied at...
Thoughts after reading Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss”
You will experience happiness, I was the one who told myself this. No
one else. The museum has invited me again to one of their...
India’s Ministry of External Affairs is one of the best in South Asia
In his exclusive interview for PICREADI Alexey
Kupriyanov, Russian
expert on India, reveals some secrets of Indian soft power and states that
India's External Affairs is one...
God, thinking of the film “A beautiful mind”, the life of John Nash
I've lived with
relapse and recovery, the hospitalization of mental illness recurring every six
months or so since my early twenties. I don't talk very much...
Transcending Borders
Usually the term of diplomacy is equated
with a complex governmental framework with extended missions, official
proceedings, treaties and much more- all part of a professional...
A Season of Classic Films: European classics screened at cultural heritage venues across Europe
This summer, European film classics will be screened
in some of Europe's most iconic cultural heritage venues. From tomorrow until
the end of September, classic films from...
The feminist inspiration of Mona Lisa
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the Italian
genius, Leonardo da Vinci, who died on 02 May 1519. On this occasion,...