Articles by The Beacon
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The Hunt
Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja | The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Short Fiction
→ read full articleLiterature as Peace Work: Eyes on Kashmira Sheth’s ‘Keeping Corner’
Jocelyn Wright | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Johan Galtung, the founder of Peace and Conflict Studies, conceptualized peace and I adopt his views here. In Peace by Peaceful Means, he sees peace as a perpetual process, and an “acceptable and sustainable outcome,” which is satisfying the basic needs of survival, wellbeing, identity/meaning, freedom, and ecological balance via harmonious and associative means.
→ read full articleSlanted Truths: Women Characters in Vijay Tendulkar’s Plays
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
The philosophy behind Tendulkar’s writing is based upon his perception of society and its values — his life experiences, and observing what he had seen in others around him: “I did not attempt to simplify matters and issues for the audience, though it would have been easier to do so through such a medium. Sometimes my plays jolted the society and I was punished…I was adamant as it is an old habit with me to do what I am asked not to.” (2)
→ read full articlePeriodic Table of Tech
The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You’re probably familiar with the periodic table — you may have even memorized all the elements. But do you know how they’re used outside of chemistry class?
→ read full articleTolstoy’s Remarkable Manifesto on Christian Anarchy and Pacifism
Robert Higgs – The Beacon,
5 May 2014
Tolstoy is one of the most important Christian anarchists in history, yet his views on Christianity were anything but typical. For him, Christianity was above all a commitment to love others as one’s self and to abstain from the use of force and violence, even in resistance to evil or in self-defense. Thus, as a Christian anarchist, he comes close to occupying a class of his own.
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