By Mayank Chhaya- Either by design or default Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in the sprawling epic feels constantly reminiscent of the Mahabharat’s Arjun profoundly conflicted on the precipice of an impending massacre. Cillian Murphy’s haunting portrayal of Julius Robert Oppenheimer with his often vacant, into-the-horizon gaze only accentuated for me the feeling that I was watching […]
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, atom bomb and the Bhagavad Gita
By Mayank Chhaya- Two days before the 78th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945, and in the midst of the release of an epic movie about the scientist behind it, Julius Robert Oppenheimer, is as good a time as any to revisit his profound engagement with the Bhagavad Gita. Oppenheimer’s remarkable clarity […]