You know what I had started to think? I had started to feel that I was beginning to lose the passion with which I used to approach literature. I had been reading good books by really accomplished writers and I had begun to like almost everything that I read, which made me think that perhaps [...]
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...and the internet mobilizes
I think that we have been witnessing something absolutely fascinating over the last few years, periodic examples of leaderless revolutions which build momentum in a chaotic and unpredictable manner and spread to the widest reaches of the world at the speed of thought. The latest example of such an uprising was today's mass internet blackout [...]
Looking back on this new year's day
It's a new year! And what better time to resume this sporadic trickle of posts which has fallen through the faucet of this forum for the last 6 years; gushing and ebullient in its infancy and seemingly wise and reserved now that 'I have been through the ropes'. I like, every now and then, to [...]
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Conversations
Looking back at the years spent in UCSD, one thing dawns clearer than any other. I have enjoyed the company and friendship of only those who explicitly offered neither brilliant insights into the grave facets of life nor any secret fountains of wisdom. I have come to despise small and big talk alike and I [...]
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Farewells
We often take our own natures and predispositions to be more special, more peculiar than those which we ascribe, in an abstract sense, to others. And poisoned by this very affliction I find myself being affected by farewells in a way which to me is more nuanced than how I think other people get affected [...]
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Smell, nostrils, and averted ugliness
I was talking with some friends today about how the nose senses smell and how one can tell where the smell is coming from when I realized a cute little hypothesis which might actually have some truth in it. It appears to me that if smell were to travel through air in the way sound [...]
Sounds of the Tambourine
Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming. and I remember those days when I [...]
Proust and Reading
In those times when I'm reading Proust or listening to Gulzar do I sometimes feel that my own linguistic inadequacy prevents me from expressing my own thoughts with the transparency and delicacy that I hold so dear in the language of some of the masters. There is something about Proust's prose, for example, which not [...]
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins wrote his best known work, The Selfish Gene, in the late 70s and initiated a silent and powerful revolution in the field of evolutionary biology. This was much before when he went nuts and started introducing himself as a militant atheist, writing books with titles like The God Delusion. I personally never heard [...]
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Adieu
K2 is finally leaving the 1 Miramar apartment that I shared with him for a little more than 2 years and I went to see him and my old place for perhaps the last time. I now realize that I have a special attachment to that place because I associate the 2 years that I [...]
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