Examining the filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s engagements with religious questions reference to his films Devi (The Goddess), Mahapurush Holy Man), Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), Sadgati (Deliverance) and Ganashatru (A Public Enemy), this essay assesses influence of Brahmo inheritance, personal atheism/agnosticism cultural fascination Hinduism in representations women’s status caste discrimination. ...

Coins of Armenian king Tigranes the Great clearly reveal a star with a tail on the royal tiara which may be associated with the Halley's passage of 87 BC. Tigranes II the Great (95-55 BC) had made Armenia one of powerful kingdoms in Western Asia, extending from the Caucasus to the eastern Mediterranean. The economical needs and the expansion of the empire resulted in diverse silver and copper-b...