Preadarshini Ramamoorthy

Sexual Exploitation Was the Norm for 19th-Century Ballerinas

Hope exists like a fruit without taste until defeat comes into the garden of life. Neither is cruel.

In addition, many traditional groups believe that ancestral spirits and supernatural forces punish those who have failed to lead moral lives by infecting them with HIV. According to a study published in 2004, South Africans who attributed HIV/AIDS to spirits and the supernatural were more likely to claim that people with HIV/AIDS were "dirty," "rep... See more

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer), the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease—because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Sonder is... that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours