Word: humanisme
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In "Utopia," the men argue politics, spot lapses in their opponents' logic while stitching up the holes in their own. Or they follow the train of a piquant proposition and find they have talked themselves into a terminus. Do they contradict themselves? Very well, they contradict themselves. And they have...
History is only nominally about Britain. The final installment--like the first two, which aired in 2000 and 2001--is really about themes that shaped the world through the centuries. (The full series will be out on video and DVD in November.) In this installment--which begins with the late...
In 1981, Sen made the crossover to writing and directing with 36 Chowringhee Lane, a film about marginalized Anglo Indians in India, which won the country's National Awards for best direction and best cinematography. Sen's subsequent movies have tackled a range of similarly weighty and political topics, including...
In Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Sen's humanism emerges in the empathetic way she explores an array of starkly different characters. In the extensive scenes on the bus, there is an old Muslim couple, a pair of newlyweds, a mother with her handicapped son, college kids on their summer break...
"The legacy of Abraham" was very interesting. I was unaware of Abraham's great influence on three very different religions. It is disheartening, though, to see the people of the faiths that share a common "father" fighting over the interpretations of Abraham's life. I was born a Hindu, but...