“You think you know Mahabharata, you should read Yuganta by Irawati Karve”. This was one of the ways the book was recommended to me. I do not claim to know all of Mahabharata, but having read the epic in multiple forms, I thought I knew it somewhat. So I read Yuganta: The end of…
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…
While going through Sushant’s body of work, in his remembrance, I watched PK again recently. This post assumes that you have watched PK or at least know about the story. All the discussions I had with friends and family members about the movie and what it represented when it was released came flooding through…
Once upon a time, there lived an angry lion in the Garhwal region of North India. No one knew why the lion was angry. Anyone who crossed his path was killed. It seemed as if terrible death herself had taken a form and descended upon the earth. His terror was spread across all the…
I was at the picturesque beach of Puri, looking out to the ocean. It was late afternoon and the beach was relatively empty of people. A couple of families were around and they were taking refuge from the afternoon sun by playing with the ocean waves coming in. I was sitting under the shade…
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…
1920 – Dwyer Stakes Duel “For just a second there loomed the possibility of the horse of the century meeting defeat. It was a rather sickening thought to those who had raised this colt to a pedestal. The same crowd would have hailed a new champion in the next breath.” – New York Times, 1920*…
As it happens with life, your quest, the secret dream you had – something that you thought of as the purpose of your existence – gets lost in the day to day minutiae of life itself. Quite a few times it so happens that by the time you get back to that dream it…