This year, I began a slow, deliberate journey into Western philosophy. It had long been on my list of things to do. I had a general familiarity with the Western thought, but a systematic study is something that I wanted to do. After all, I call myself a philosopher. I decided to begin with…
After reading Yuganta: The end of an epoch, there were two things that kept bothering me. The first one was Karve’s view of Bhishma, specifically around the incident during the Rajasuya Yagna by Yudhishthir. Bhishma asked for Krishna to be the first one to be respected and in both Shishupala and Karve’s view that…
I have been thinking about Snow Crash, a science fiction novel, by Neal Stephenson for a few days now. The thoughts were triggered after reading The McDonaldization of Society article by George Ritzer as part of a coursework for Elephants and Cheetahs by Prof Saral Mukherjee in IIM Ahmedabad. In the article, author talks…
I am made of light. I am shaped as a songbird and I am sitting on the top of a tree. There is a nest of songbirds on the branches of the tree below me. In that nest, an egg trembled, then cracked a little and then split. He came out and opened his…
Last week, a friend suggested that I should watch a debate between Javed Akhtar and Tarek Fatah that happened recently. The debate is available here. During the discussion, Javed Akhtar raised a point about the Ashwamedh and said it is not practical that similar to our past, India will leave a horse in Nepal…
This is a jar – It is made of clay – Can we conclude that the jar exists even when the jar is not manifested, solely on the basis of existence of the clay? In this piece I will try to examine this proposition. Subsequently, we will try to learn whether you or me…
Throughout history, remarkable individuals have devoted their lives and intellect to progressing human thought and deepening our understanding of existence. They pursued questions that seem eternal—What is life? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Across Eastern and Western traditions, such thinkers have emerged—luminaries who wrestled with these questions and shared…