Surit Dasgupta

Surit is a writer and painter from Mumbai, India. He is an avid student of philosophy, anthropology, and theology. He also has an arts degree from the All India Fine Arts Association.

The Gospel in Pandemic Times

Christian Worldview

It is startling, to say the least, seeing how the COVID-19 virus has affected almost everyone around the world in such a short period. But what is even more startling ...

A Hidden Life (Film Review)

Christian Worldview

A Hidden Life is legendary director Terrence Malick’s latest film. It tells the true story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, his fight against the Nazi regime, and his struggle ...

The Virtue of Humility

Christian Worldview

The irony of Golden Globe-winning Michelle Williams openly advocating for the religious ritual of human-sacrifice seems to fly over most people’s heads.

The Children of the Camps

Libertarianism

A standard of a society can often be measured by the way it treats its children, which is why we are horrified at the accounts of how the Soviet Union ...

The Aesthetic of a Martyr

Christian Worldview

St. Varus was a highly-decorated soldier who lived in Egypt when the Roman emperor Maximian (c. 286 to 305 A.D.) initiated severe persecution against those who refused to worship the ...

The Schizophrenia and Healing of the American Church

Christian Worldview

The saddest part of Christian leadership in America is its schizophrenic attitude towards war perpetrated by the state both at home and in foreign soil. It is a bizarre sight ...

“The Joker” and Modern Society

Culture

Disclaimer: The following contains spoilers for the recently released movie “The Joker”. Much has been made about Todd Phillips’ movie The Joker. Fans of the comic book supervillain are delighted ...

The Way

Christian Worldview

One gains a glimpse of the mystery of the number, three; the deity is neither one nor many; its perfection goes beyond the multiplicity of which duality is the root… ...

Clown World and the Only Thing that Matters

Christian Worldview

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!” What advantage does a man have in all his labor In which he toils under the sun? (Ecclesiastes ...

Freedom and Responsibility

Christian Worldview

Nothing created by God is evil. It is not food that is evil but gluttony, not the begetting of children but unchastity, not material things but avarice, not esteem but ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

The Persecution of Truth

Christian Worldview

In 2003, a nation was still reeling from the effects of a deadly terrorist attack that cost thousands of lives. Like any crises, a scapegoat was needed to appease a ...

Blatty and the Otherizing of Man

Libertarianism

In 1971, William Peter Blatty wrote ‘The Exorcist.’ Till date, the novel is considered one of the scariest horror stories ever written. The movie adaptation traumatized many people in cinema ...

The Birth of Mercy

Christian Worldview

Recently, a psychology professor by the name of Erik Sprankle stated that the Virgin Mary may not have given ‘consent’ when the angel Gabriel told her that she would give ...

The Three Hebrews and the Fall of Babylon

Libertarianism

“And so it is important to see that there are times when a man-made law is out of harmony with the moral law of the universe, there are times when ...

Gosnell: A Tale of Sacrifice and Redemption

Libertarianism

In 2010, Detective James Wood, hot on a drug trafficking trail, stumbles onto a case that is more sinister than one can ever imagine. A dark sacrificial rite was brought ...

Heroes in the First Circle

Libertarianism

Tyranny is brought on not only by a few bad men who gain power, but also by the willingness of many to lie to each other and themselves. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ...

The Two Kingdoms

Libertarianism

In volume three of Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ we are told of the tragic story of the kulaks and the Soviet state’s role in their horrible fate. The kulaks were the ...

Great Power and Small Friendships

Libertarianism

In the epic ‘Lord of the Rings,’ J.R.R. Tolkien gives us a vivid illustration of the rivalrous tendencies of human beings and the role of desire for great power in ...

The Scapegoating of Jordan Peterson

Libertarianism

Ever since his interview with Cathy Newman went viral on YouTube, the scapegoating phenomenon that involves Dr. Jordan Peterson keeps getting bigger and bigger. Numerous hit-pieces have emerged from the ...

Transcending Identity Politics

Libertarianism

We sometimes hear conversations which contain claims like, “Jews are so sneaky,” or “Christians are so intolerant,” or “Asians are so smart,” or “Blacks are so violent.” Imagine this type ...

The Slave and the Aristocrat

Libertarianism

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his book, The Antichrist: “Christianity has taken the side of everything weak, base, ill-constituted, it has made an ideal out of opposition to the instinct of ...

The New Counterculture

Libertarianism

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...

The Stone Table

Theology

C.S. Lewis had some interesting things to say about humanity in his children’s fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia, and what he spoke of in The Lion, the Witch and ...

The Tragedy of the Seven Samurai

War and Peace

All artistic masterpieces have something in common, according to René Girard. Akira Kurosawa’s movie Seven Samurai, better known to western audiences as The Magnificent Seven, is one of those masterpieces. ...

Reflections on the Gulag Archipelago

History

Life is filled with suffering, and suffering is magnified and multiplied by the endless stream of malevolence. I am discovering this first hand as my mother lies in a hospital ...

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