Have you chosen your path? One sits inside the temple, the other roams with the temple within. Holi, Vrindavan, India

Take my hand Holi, Vrindavan, India

Dignity in Poverty Holi, Vrindavan, India

In Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella (1591), the names Astrophil and Stella mean Star-lover and star, suggesting the impossibility of their union because of the distance between them.

by Girolamo Macchietti The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social

“Go into the assembly and ask if Dharmaraja had become a slave before he staked me.” – Irawati Karve, Draupadi: Introduction, Yuganta Irawati Karve’s Draupadi in Yuganta (1968) raises “difficult and

William Missouri Down, Lou Anne Wright and Erik Ramsey, together compiled The Art of Theatre in which they use the example of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 BCE) to explain the ‘Theatre of protest’. According

“Domestic ideology, or the cult of domesticity, can be defined as a series of related ideas that characterized the family home as the particular domain of the woman, that idealized the woman in the home

This photo was taken in the morning light of a small town called Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. This is no normal town, but a religious one. Lord Krishna is said to have spent an idyllic childhood

In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a Juvenalian satirical pamphlet anonymously, titled A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country,

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) directly quotes Milton’s Paradise Lost, “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” These lines are

"I'm Gotham's reckoning." Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. “THO’ Grief and Fondness in my Breast rebel, When injur’d THALES bids the Town farewell” Samuel Johnson. London, 1738.