I look around me, and it’s splendid. .There are the tallest skyscrapers – Ayn rand would ‘ve loved them .Yes , man’s power to reach for the skies indeed..The roads are wide-several lanes; vehicles moving in precision, the lawns immaculate..The shrubbery astonishing for a desert country…The cars, each make a reflection of man’s ingenuity [...]
Archive for May, 2008
25 May
Milan Kundera…
” … How can we condemn something that is ephemeral , in transit ? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia …..”
14 May
An occasion…
I would like to raise a toast ..
Here’s to M and her wonderful store.To all the spunk in her and the individuality she emanates..The zest for life, her quest to be herself..To her , for her identity, and knowing where to use it..To being humble enough to meet with just about anyone and chat for [...]
14 May
Loochis,paturis and well…..Bond
If you know Bond- you will know he’s a taker for all the good things in life,particularly food…So our man is just back from Calcutta(yeah it’s still Bombay and Madras for me), where in true blue bond style,he checked out the finest places to sample Bengali cuisine..And when he did get back to Bangalore, he [...]
14 May
A giant screen ….
I’ve just had this talk with a good friend .More like a heated discussion that ended with me realizing that I had been looking at stuff from a very insulated angle.
It’s not often that you come across someone who can argue in a non- vociferous, non-judgmental fashion..
That having been said, there’s this quality about a [...]
14 May
Ex nihilo…
So if Russia could nurture Marxism ..And if communism could spread wings in China ..and France could be the hot bed of existentialism and Derrida’s deconstructions….Or for that matter phenomenology in Germany …Why haven’t we in India had a thought process of our own?A punk rock generation?A philosophy or a way of life [...]
7 May
Bigotry…..
Forgive my lack of perspective here…My ineptitude with the iambic pentameter and the what not..But modern poetry is so crass.And yes to generalize, is again an ” ism “…of which we have enough…But really ,what is all the violence in each line.. The apathy even when you talk of grief?
Why [...]
7 May
All you who sleep tonight………….
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to the left or right
And emptiness above-
Know that you aren’t alone
the whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
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