politics
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Notes on Idealism – Part One
Since the height of their perfection in the sixteenth century, the arts have shown a steady decline. The cause lies rather in the changes that have occurred in thoughts and manners … the absence of popular taste, the gradual enrichment of the middle classes, the increasingly autocratic sway of sterile criticism, the tendency of men…
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Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album: On Suffering
As a work of 19th-century Russian literature, it is no surprise that the Sketches contains much suffering in it. In keeping with his role as an interested yet detached observer, Turgenev simply describes the plight of his characters “as it is”, appended with only a few heartfelt or ironic comments from himself, never going beyond…
Sanchit Creates 