Random Thoughts

There are no good and bad stories, but stories that don’t pretend and stories that pretend that they are not stories. A man who teaches you a trick or two against knowing is a dangerous man, more dangerous than he who pretends that he knows a few things about you and is here to help [...]

The Impossibility of a Dialogue

“We live through troubling times” said Bholu the ghoda, “The world as we know today as ours will disappear from the face of this planet. Today our little island formally known as Jambudwipa is surrounded by an ever growing understanding that pretends to know better than what we always knew to be good for us. They seek to change and transform us for our own good and for the sake of our own soul, for they worry too much about the terrible fates that await us and they think in their broad wisdom that the only way we can save our misguided selves is by letting them work over it. Today we have come to doubt the very word ‘Self’. So I would invite our esteemed friend and guide the Jackal to come over here and speak to us about matters relating to our Self and what possibilities open us to a state of dialogue with forces that seek to change it with the pretence of saving us from our-own-dark-and-lost-selves.” [...]

The forgetting of Gandhi’s Challenge to the project of Modernity

The forgetting of Gandhi’s Challenge to the project of Modernity Incomplete essay written in 2001 which exist only as fragments and quotes, notes all scattered on the page so please bear with me as I hope to complete it someday, also, this time I will use Vinay Bhals article to re[frame] and repost and in [...]

Everything about little Pandu

Its a mystery she said, an complete mystery (as if there are half and incomplete ones) But this atleast is something I can solve. and by god, I have solved it.
I was now curious as a kitten as to what this mystery could be and what exactly she had solved.
Whats the mystery I ask.
Ah, the mystery. here it is:What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
A puzzle I said now whats the mystery.
It is for me she replied.
Ok! so how come you were able to solve it.
Thats simple she said, it is as simple as: How does little Pavdu cross the road?
He looks to the left, he looks to his right, and he looks up at sky to make sure nothing falls on is head!

Hmm, from where did I get that one from.
well from a grasshopper who claims to be manjushree followed by one [...]

Prithvi (a poetic film)

On October, 2007 Sadho Poetry Film Fest premiered my 8min film “Prithvi” (The Earth). Though it was mildly appreciated, I was asked on several occasion (quite bluntly to my embarrassment) what the film was about.
I had a short answer, “It is about earth, dwelling, passage of time and memories clustering to become being only to vanish and slip into unfathomable silence of the other, the other death” [...]

Dasarajna ‘Battle of the Ten Kings’ (a vedic fantasia)

(Year 2050) I was getting a bit worried, It was almost 9.30 and the train was nowhere in sight. What could have happened my thoughts wander, these ultramodern magnetic cushioned bullets, gushing at 340 kilometers per hour were supposed to solve the distance problem by phasing out the sky trams which due to technical limitations [...]