The Iliad is a collision event—two massive bodies (Achilles’ rage and Troy’s stubborn dignity) smashing together in a storm of hadronic debris. The poem behaves like a high-energy scattering experiment in which honor, mortality, and divine interference are particles exchanging momentum with catastrophic results. Achilles is effectively a top quark: heavier than the narrative can … Continue reading 7. The Iliad — Homer
Reading the Canon of the World Literature Jan 15 till Feb 22.
2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.The original title of this series of books was “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu” and contains the following volumes;1 Volume One: Swann's Way, 2 Volume Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower3 Volume Three: The Guermantes Way4 Volume Four: Sodom and Gomorrah5 Volume Five: … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature Jan 15 till Feb 22.
Wokean Nation. Acrylic on canvas W 30 cm x H 20 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
#Woke and #anti-woke #crusaders are the two prominent movements that give shape at the current #political landscape. Both #movements #cancel the works from artists and writers that don't wholeheartedly support their rhetoric. It is accompanied with violent street clashes between two parties with opposite views about fundamental values. One wants to curb the rising gun-violence … Continue reading Wokean Nation. Acrylic on canvas W 30 cm x H 20 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
The Dark Sides of Religion (part 5/5): Replenishing at the Well of Justification. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
In this work I'm focusing on extreme fundamentalists who believe that their religion gives them the right to tell everyone else what they are and are not allowed to do and commands them to kill certain non-believers. Religion is often used as a well of justification for some of the most horrendous and heinous human … Continue reading The Dark Sides of Religion (part 5/5): Replenishing at the Well of Justification. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
The Dark Sides of Religion (part 3/5): Nirvana. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
Nirvana in Buddhism is a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. Gurus talk about the universal mind and about the futility of power, knowledge, and material desires. Looked upon from a … Continue reading The Dark Sides of Religion (part 3/5): Nirvana. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
The Moral Crusaders and Literary Criticism.
Once an artist releases a product, it stands on its own and must be judged as such. The only views and opinions that count, are those ventilated or provoked by the artistic creation itself.
The Maharajagar 