Jun 7Voltaire’s Micromégas18th Century Science Fiction that Satirizes Self-Conceit of Mankind. — We talk about the world moving ‘fast’ today but Europe in the 18th century must have been faster. Yes, these express technological developments are blinding and who knows how long it will take for us to finally understand what has been happening for the last 20 years or so, but…Books4 min read
Jun 3This Thing Called Selective TalkingWhy are some people boring to listen to? — A few days ago, I attended a small literary gathering. There were different kinds of creative and intellectual people with diversity in profession, career-track, writing styles, etc. The things in common being that all were intellectuals and older than me. Much older. This allowed me to freely be curious as…Life4 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·May 28Not All Thoughts Tell TruthHow do we distinguish between thoughts that tell the truth and thoughts that don’t? — Almost noon: I was returning home by bus. It was a ~8 hours Nepali journey. 4 hrs gone. I had called home in the morning but my mother had neither answered nor called-back. It was then that I received a text. Nothing special — just a normal hello text. From…Thoughts4 min read
May 25The Read-Write Balance AgitationWhen you read, you don’t want to write. You write and you stop reading. What’s going on?! — I don’t think I am alone in this. I am sure I am not alone in this. This restlessness is painful! When I start a book, I do not want to stop until I have finished it. Yes, I have my Time Management Formula where I divide my day into…Reading3 min read
May 25The Tangle of ExistenceCan we look at our collective knowledge as the process of untangling the tangled? — The pursuit of truth for human being is often depicted as being a linear affair. It either goes up: We, evolved from apes, have managed to create computers, peek into our cells and now we have rockets and now we are heading into unknown space, time, and new dimensions and…Philosophy2 min read
May 25What Is Art? — For Andrey TarkovskyFor the Artists and Art lovers — DO WE NEED ART??? — The Russian Filmmaker Andrey Tarskovsky in his book Sculpting in Time (translated to English by Kitty Hunter-Blair) describes and discusses a few important things about art and cinema. Here I want to paraphrase some ideas I found relevant and write-worthy. He begins the second chapter (Art — a yearning for…Art7 min read
May 21Dealing With Verbal PoisonsWhat To Do When Someone Hurts You (tries to) With Words? — There are many who, out of ignorance, out of envy or out of their own self-insignificance-perception will spit verbal poison at you. They will — with their petty mind — carefully locate the thing(s) that matter, strengthen you and derogate it to a great degree and you immediately find yourself…Life2 min read
May 19Think To Act. Act Not To Think.You desire to think but the demand is to act. What the heckles! — Thinking, Reading and Writing are habits more than character. You get into one and you will find yourself naturally and conveniently converting all life experiences into them. Likewise, if you break the discipline you will find yourself easily ignoring them and getting lost in the hubbubs of the ‘real’ world…Thinking3 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·May 5We Writers of TodayWe are this, that, everything — and nothing. — A writer has to read. It’s how heshe knows what others have thought and done, it’s how heshe compares what heshe has thought and done with others and eventually enhance and grow himherself (the English language needs to fix a common term to denote humans beyond gender, doesn’t it?). While…Writer3 min read
May 1Life > CareerA nice career is for a nice life. Life is not a tool for a nice career. — An interviewer asks the Iranian Film Director Abbas Kiarostami how he would like his legacy as a filmmaker /artist to be. In other words, he asks Abbas what he would like to be remembered by. Abbas then gives a reply in a classic Abbas way: …my pleasure is in my…Life4 min read
