<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:21:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@vidishakhaitan/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[If Theft Was Treated Like Rape]]></title><description><![CDATA[This video represents the treatment of rape survivors in the Indian context.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@vidishakhaitan/if-theft-was-treated-like-rape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@vidishakhaitan/if-theft-was-treated-like-rape</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:40:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eBVFRa9yRfbFP1mqhUBCMi4FeuqHGuAMHYr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bells of Vrindavan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Holi, Vrindavan, India (This picture has not been edited.) If you like my work, please upvote and comment. Check out my work on literature and photography. Why so serious, Johnson?: 'London' vs The Dark]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/bells-of-vrindavan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/bells-of-vrindavan</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:20:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/gPCasciUWmF5VZucjWuzmpXUomGMznGBossB7LD3avNJTjShefCg7E8c7d4yfHYnSCZv1tKb65MF2wmRb41QU9LjwewyjcQCPbwRrrtrJryty2iTEcFVBwcyoPV3XJMFmGLSfvSHuTwLFpjwHp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Festival of Colours - 5]]></title><description><![CDATA[Holi, Vrindavan, India (This picture has not been edited.) If you like my work, please upvote and comment. Check out my work on literature and photography. Why so serious, Johnson?: 'London' vs The Dark]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-5</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:56:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVeou6nJVbGmcGxn84gkSCg6wNNntxPNgsWVJyPaMSMN5irxnjzyLUA8bbEEu7ZTBo9BmEuUVFJRUn5t?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Festival of Colours - 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you chosen your path? One sits inside the temple, the other roams with the temple within. Holi, Vrindavan, India]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-4</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 15:55:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVf3LPkp3DGrPDBZ7JEfTtgnbbMRrhmdafajXJbxtHbTjQrSC2vAtNB1iQ7SqVqZu31GcAJRoupYLE6A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Festival of Colours - 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take my hand Holi, Vrindavan, India]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-3</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:38:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVeSLgk2VkJNSYgUCKnEiciq2oG1SWLYGbSy7LcmWapEnnMW4q47QVCBDpWoC45ic5o5zSHV81sfiFyQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Festival of Colours - 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dignity in Poverty Holi, Vrindavan, India]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-colours-2</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:29:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVgaQTAE3jpJrhwSdhN6nCxuDCTr5oiAnNMYLEqkGARRxXzZeUXcDNbfcujMNM7jhwnPFZ1TGQRTyBAv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Englishization of Petrarchan Convention: Sidney’s Sonnets]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella (1591), the names Astrophil and Stella mean Star-lover and star, suggesting the impossibility of their union because of the distance between them.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/englishization-of-petrarchan-convention-sidney-s-sonnets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/englishization-of-petrarchan-convention-sidney-s-sonnets</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 06:15:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc18GVREvvsnAjfLwLF5qHHFduNHKinpxEeJycxvNAqLEQAcZaxB1RiHpWGuuh86Wy1WY1f33wDJMYZ9PVLsiF6AQYvNXJ1ZmkR15XQVxKLdVaZkU6a?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was it Cleopatra who said, “Let Rome in Tiber Melt”?]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Girolamo Macchietti The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/was-it-cleopatra-who-said-let-rome-in-tiber-melt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/was-it-cleopatra-who-said-let-rome-in-tiber-melt</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:47:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FxX5caie56yqUbvo2DTJv1i6qm8z4ixTabBTrjod7GCP7DYSHya1Qy33JAJuedgexnBce3PDJJ9d4Vw3priWUnC2aJ52FcZ5t1HaFFk1pFHQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draupadi’s Grave Mistake]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Go into the assembly and ask if Dharmaraja had become a slave before he staked me.” – Irawati Karve, Draupadi: Introduction, Yuganta Irawati Karve’s Draupadi in Yuganta (1968) raises “difficult and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/draupadi-s-grave-mistake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/draupadi-s-grave-mistake</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:34:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FxX5caie56yqUbvo2DTJv1i6qm8z4ixTabBTrjod5EfRXV7v7Ufh4BwV2iciE9XzUDXRL1bTtgVSPB7NS8DJDWxEtxZbab6kgbWjqM4PFTrv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes’ Audience]]></title><description><![CDATA[William Missouri Down, Lou Anne Wright and Erik Ramsey, together compiled The Art of Theatre in which they use the example of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 BCE) to explain the ‘Theatre of protest’. According]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/aristophanes-audience</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/aristophanes-audience</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:11:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pQYiuVvgYiUBP16WHGGN7UNn1BCdGdJsEXfaztMq7kZKEyP3nKm1e3YbFxU5jmRBkgeXy8SjXuoqfPE5vBMFxP9Kgac6jF6QAFEh98XAx5HYfG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women in Hard Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Domestic ideology, or the cult of domesticity, can be defined as a series of related ideas that characterized the family home as the particular domain of the woman, that idealized the woman in the home]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/women-in-hard-times</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/women-in-hard-times</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:45:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787gZytUNTpdi34tC468XpPmJy73pLfzKag6THUvvFh4XD86G24D2ef43CA2AswWUvkSgZ1LvqNqmQTUA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The festival of Holi in Vrindavan, India]]></title><description><![CDATA[This photo was taken in the morning light of a small town called Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. This is no normal town, but a religious one. Lord Krishna is said to have spent an idyllic childhood]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-holi-in-vrindavan-india</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@vidishakhaitan/the-festival-of-holi-in-vrindavan-india</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:40:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/AmRc67RgYaWVEa5TxnoPRiGMS1Ae6MyfiK8oyuue12TF7aCtYgVJpvPaGFyhc3KakXMLfn5DxZECMR6ziRHnctyNRM5zBz63PUq9seNkjgPv3YSCspKNfBmVuGdLWeYGAGhm3MdddZs2m8RVJoUeQg3RB8PNwTGS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A NOT SO MODEST PROPOSAL BY JONATHAN SWIFT]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a Juvenalian satirical pamphlet anonymously, titled A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/a-not-so-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/a-not-so-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:01:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/62PdCouTvNPDuXRaduVYiCb9hxbZWDcAb1acVYBWNL9FAoZXBAHLKYTHkh9PTsREv7HssUpJNgwfqGHwvHeawD8M1FVdiaWc1Qq9HXmrNj9FpTx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why (,) monster?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) directly quotes Milton’s Paradise Lost, “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” These lines are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/why-monster</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/why-monster</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:40:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2923mN3pnd7PrxqAS8My84z8QnDpEsSBnKFsBYXvoFNK1HgrrkVFGGosQkYFwjZ2vaqg64Cfv77YZN9s3dSfMJzsmRnArbhNPnRhWb1XJtd7ot?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Outsider, Domestic Slave, and Woman: Medea’s Didacticism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Euripides’ Medea (first performed. 431 BCE) is based upon the myth of Jason and Medea. Playwrights often borrowed from myths and produced brilliant works of art; Euripides produces a string of unsettling]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/an-outsider-domestic-slave-and-woman-medea-s-didacticism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/an-outsider-domestic-slave-and-woman-medea-s-didacticism</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re Being Brainwashed: Barthes’ ‘Mythologies’]]></title><description><![CDATA[“This myth of human ‘condition’ rests on a very old mystification, which always consists in placing Nature at the bottom of History. Any classic humanism postulates that in scratching the history of men]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/you-re-being-brainwashed-barthes-mythologies</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/you-re-being-brainwashed-barthes-mythologies</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:19:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/62PdCouTvNPDuXRaduVYiCb9hxbZWDcAb1acVYBWSRuHbC62cFm6PcWGPDvWBNkNYXvi7R8KqrpTUk3v8RTcpGHurPy3MGf1k4v6uZ9EcG16k5C?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why so serious, Johnson?: 'London' vs The Dark Knight Trilogy]]></title><description><![CDATA["I'm Gotham's reckoning." Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. “THO’ Grief and Fondness in my Breast rebel, When injur’d THALES bids the Town farewell” Samuel Johnson. London, 1738.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/why-so-serious-johnson-london-vs-the-batman-trilogy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@vidishakhaitan/why-so-serious-johnson-london-vs-the-batman-trilogy</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vidishakhaitan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 19:51:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/32FTXiZsHoAWXDGUT6XfPTLRBbYW7TUFpRSTArzFnp81gzHxMsCN2tyJKAy8zrBw7NKq6vQkXHJBbAcqnApBqxe8DCbM5ii9BpaCti2oMhykkAgprRAXPxkgMSBkuMc82vgGtcqjfBTmerdL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>