The Church and the KingdomItalian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris Notre Dame Cathedral in the presence of the Bishop of Paris and a number of other high ranking church officials. His resulting speech, a stunningly

an elaborate house of cards

and Shakespeare

but also closer to philosophy—close enough

and Suresh Jayaram

was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld

The first-ever compilation of works of art on Chandigarh

Pages: 126

The gaze of thermal vision

and culture

Somnath Hore’s personal diary and sketches of the Tebhaga days are an unusual social document of a peasant movement seen through the eyes of a committed artist

As it goes along

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet