This is where I blog these days. I might blog at Chai Kada again. Someday. Or maybe not.

and turn again

If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Emerson,Brahma

Hasta Siempre Che Guevara

 

 “If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”

- Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara(June 14, 1928 – Oct 9,1967)

 

“the most complete human being of our age”

-Jean Paul Sartre

Geometry of Truth

“Truth is not linear, it is spherical. So it has to be contradictory. Anything that is spherical is always contradictory.“

-H.H Sri Sri Ravishanker

Obscurantism is the easiest way to profundity.

Its my third week in Bangalore.Hope to resume blogging soon.

Heaven is…

A cup of awesome filter kaaphi at Karpaigambal mess with strains of nadaswaram wafting in from Kapaleeshwar at the twilight hour.

I’ll miss Chennai.

I was always something of a leftist, Reforms made me a complete marxist.

Excerpt’s from Mani Shanker Aiyer’s speech to the CII.Entire speech.

And we stand 126th on the Human Development Index. I am glad to report that last year we were 127th.At this very fast rate of growth that we are now showing, we moved up from 127th to 126th position. This is the paradigm of our development process. In a democracy, every five years the masses determine who will rule this country. And they showed dramatically in the last elections that they knew how to keep their counsel and show who they wanted. We, my party and I, were the beneficiaries and we formed the government. Every five years, it is the masses who determine who will form the government. And in between those five years the classes determine what that government will do.

In determining what that government will do, the CII has played an extremely important role. I am not surprised, as that is its job. It represents industry, and therefore it argues for the interests of the industry. Industry has been enormously benefited by the processes of economic reform that we have seen in this country over the last 15 years or so. But the benefits of these reforms have gone so disproportionately to those who are the most passionate advocates of reforms that every five years we are given a slap in the face for having done what the CII regards as self-evidently the right thing for this country.

Real Truth?

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The above mentioned e-mag tags itseld as a ‘Magazine restoring plain understanding’. I must confess that such profundity does elude me.

This has to be the most hillarious spoof ever.

Its just one of those days.

Listening to: China China(Mouna Ragam)

Breathless

Saw ‘A bout de souffle’ last week.Godard is not quite god.But not far from being one either.

 

Parts of it are pretensiously exinstentialist.Existentialism appeals to me in bits.Kunjum Camus,Sartre and Woody allen.But I don’t call it Philosophy. It’s more like religion.Sounds a tad cooler though. My idea of philosophy is the academic philosophy of analytical variety. Formal systems,Logic,Structure and all that jazz. Philosophy exists to let a few smart academics play logico-analytical games with ideas. Informal pointification bores me unless im stoned.

 

A bout de souffle.Oh Yes. Jean seberg was hot. I mean like uber hot. She supported the Black panther party. Black panther party had freaky looking newsletters.As psychedelic as the era was.

 

Floyd’s been right at the top of my list of favourites for long. I tried to grow out of it.Time and again.Only to come back to it.I discovered it in my 11th.But I tend to associate it with my undergrad. Back in the land of Last kiss lovers, floyd was branded very iit madras. IIT Madras is where I might head for the next year or two.

Sounds like irony.

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Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut