Rendezvous with Rama
On the strange hero of Valmiki’s psychological masterpiece.
Evolution Of The Obvious: The Foster-Kokko Model Of Superstition
Kevin Foster and Hanna Kokko’s paper claims that superstition (might) persist in a population provided it has survival value. Naturally. Some objections to these types of arguments.
The Politics Of Captain Nemo
On Jules Verne’s strange hero Captain Nemo and how Nemo’s radical history was suppressed by English translators.
William Makepeace Thackeray: The Indian In The Closet
Miscegenation — racial mixing — is a recurring theme in Thackeray’s works. Strangely enough, the most obvious explanation is also a plausible one.