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Chintan: Orwell on subversion
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George Orwell in 'The art of Donald Mcgill' talks about the innocence of subversion and how it is one of the essential characteristics of human beings. The following paragraph is taken from his essay where he is musing about the necessity and the origin of the dichotomy of 'Sancho Panza and Don Quixote', 'Jeeves and Wooster', 'Holmes and Watson' etc. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Chintan: "You are a good writer"
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You are a good writer". So two of my last three posts have been videos of other people with the last post dated a considerable time ago. Hmmm. can you hear the tinny screech of my iron-ical knowledge-spatula desperately trying to glean the last scraps of ideas from the dark, gaping barrel of imagination? There are more worthy ways of setting fire to time. So do I care? I wonder. what exactly is good writing? Sorry for being a slacker these last few weeks :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Chintan: October 2008
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After a bit of driving my scooty around in the particularly 'undisciplined' Lucknow traffic, I have noticed another interesting fact about it. There are very little, if not, no sudden movements. A mathematician would have described the multitudes of vehicular trajectories on a Lucknow road as smooth. Continuous and Differentiable. That is another reason why there aren't more accidents. Many more. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Chintan: June 2008
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Ode to an Ode. Freude, schöner Götterfunken. Thus starts the baritone for "Ode to joy" in the 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony. And my god! It chills me down to the bone. I am terribly sorry if my limited language could only provide an understated eulogy to this masterpiece of human creation. The piece is more beautiful than my, or indeed anyone's, words could ever describe. Here is a youtube link for the piece but I suggest listening to it on a CD if you can get your hands onto one:. Here howeve...
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Chintan: July 2008
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I have noticed, I'm in complete love with language! And it's slightly scary because I do not think that people take it as seriously as I do. I would even go as far as hinting that there might be something wrong with me in the indulgent pleasures I take in the obscure quirks of language. Let me explain. I see that I have digressed again :). Spot the error: Answer. What's wrong in the following picture:. I must confess here that we as Indians probably stereotype the most, which again is a stereotype! I wok...
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Chintan: November 2008
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Impressions in the dust. And how exactly does that great bowl of seamless integration of suffering and joy, tears and laughter, hope and pessimism, affect one of its own sons? How does that brilliant conglomeration of stupefying paradoxes register on the self proclaimed anesthetized rationality of someone like me? How little do we know! How simplistic our arguments and how immature our reasoning? I see that my tone has reversed. Oh well! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Impressions in the dust.
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Chintan: Mexico: Impressions
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So what is Mexico like? Hopefully I'll stop to reminisce some more for there are such beautiful memories. Nice I think you are familiarizing yourself with a country the way its meant to be done. Good luck. Thanks. I can't wait to get there again :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Chintan: August 2008
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On the beach. Again. That took much longer than I had anticipated! Tired Too tired :(. PS: It's titled untitled because I am too tired to even think of a title. But for me at least it's a smile of quiet resignation at being made to realize, quite beautifully, the helpless cruelty of our world. The point is, good art is not a luxury that we can dispense with. We need assurances that we are capable of creating beauty in order of maintaining our sanity and science and art are the two avenues which help ...
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Chintan: January 2009
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I was reading 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. A few lines worth sharing:. Yet each man kills the thing he loves,. By each let this be heard,. Some do it with a bitter look,. Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss,. The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young,. And some when they are old;. Some strangle with the hands of Lust,. Some with the hands of Gold:. The kindest use a knife, because. The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long,. I supp...
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Chintan: Science, reality, religion etc.
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Science, reality, religion etc. Below is part of a video of the brilliant Feynman expressing his views on some of these topics. The relevant points start at 3:20. How about a new blog post . eh? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Science, reality, religion etc. Mnemosyne vs. Camera. David Deutsch on TED. View my complete profile.
