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The Word ‘Mahatma’
“In the journey from the dirt to the high citadels of power, one sometimes does not have the luxury of being a mahatma.” Rajdeep Sardesai, Chief Editor, CNN-IBN (April 27th 2007) Is this sentence, written in defense of Mayawati’s political methods, seen by Mr. Sardesai as no different from any other in the “arena”, just […]
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5th April 2007
Alumnus. The word just keeps ringing in my head. And here I stand, alumnated. I am forced to recognize that no more is there a surety of my next meal needing no payment, of it being balanced with all the right nutrients. No more, am I assured of a single-room with no-one to tell me […]
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The Semiotics Of A Management Institute
Introduction: Semiotics is a way of seeing the world. And it takes a while to figure out it’s enormous significance. It is an attempt to understand the underlying structures, modalities, relationships and significance of any aspect of our culture and world. It can be a way of looking at the significance of a chair lying […]
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Why I Love Conversations & Detest Debates
Why is that psychometric tests seem to ask you to take a stand about who you are and then consistently defend it? Why is that psychology today still seems so intent on finding that critcal narrative which unravels a person’s mysteries. At this point in my life, it seems to me that our everyday experiences […]
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The Importance Of Mist & Fog
Shots of early morning or rain laden mist can be so evocative. The mist symbolises things which make it far more important to me than simply the aesthetic value they contain. Sometimes the mist is leafy, with shafts of sunlight or moonlight breaking through and playing about. Sometimes, it is the red mist of dawn […]
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Is The Narrative Relevant Anymore?
The open society for the privileged in India has been restored. And so, the prodigal returns. This break has been about an attempt to explore the relationships between some concepts and ideas that have been thrown about during our film appreciation class. This post will therefore be a narration of those chaotic sessions & the […]
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Upon Giving ‘Munich’ A Second Chance
Violence begets greater violence & we all bleed red. Ever since the First World War, the modern chroniclers and story-tellers of the world have been trying to drill this into public conciousness. Since the dawn of History, War and Conflict have always inspired and driven Man to be more than himself. Technology and literature have […]
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Reading Lolita
It speaks of the power of packaging that in all these years of browsing through bookshelves, I have come across, more than once, a copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous book, but was never as drawn to it as I was yesterday, when I picked one up for the first time: A Vintage Publishing version, celebrating […]
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Literature?
The wildfire spread of blogging in all its forms is to me, an affirmation of something I have been convinced of for a long time: that the publishers, producers & critics of the world who decide for society as to what will sell, what is worth reading and publishing & what will see the light […]
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