Art, bolstered by the silence afforded by galleries, ushers us not just into a cosmos created by the artist, but also into our own selves, dropping all pretence.
Art and philosophy can show the way for a social media that embraces life in its totality, allowing for the projection of our true selves on social media.
Politics will determine whether nations end up apologising for historical wrongs, but the philosophical questions underlying the issue have no easy answers.
Although Jawaharlal Nehru’s first state visit to the US was a diplomatic failure, it revealed that, like John F Kennedy, he was a rare leader who represented not just a nation’s policies but also its sentiments.
