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अनन्त का छंद - 5

अनन्त का छंद – 5 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी ख. भौतिक अस्तित्व 60. मनुष्य के अस्तित्व की एक सामान्य चर्चा के बाद हम अब उसके भौतिक और चेतन पक्ष की अलग से थोड़ी चर्चा करेंगे । पहले भौतिक पक्ष । अन्य प्राणियों की तरह मनुष्य अपने विस्तारित आत्म-पुनरुत्पादन के लिए प्राकृतिक परिवेश का उपयोग मात्र नहीं करता, बल्कि श्रम के औज़ारों के विकास के ज़रिये उत्पादन करता है और इस प्रक्रिया में प्रकृति के साथ तथा आपस…

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Skysoaked: Jibanananda Das

Reblogged from translations:

Suranjana, you better not go there You better not talk to that young man Come back, Suranjana When silver starfire fills the night

Come back to this meadow, this wave Come back here to my heart Don’t go away with him anymore Fa…

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'अमृत' काल में विष

‘अमृत’ काल में विष प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी 1. हिसाब-किताब की हिंसा सभी समुदाय इतिहास में अपने ऊपर हुए कथित अन्याय-अत्याचार का हिसाब-किताब चुकता करने लगे तो उसका अन्त मानवजाति की सामूहिक तबाही में होगा । इतिहास के विभिन्न कालखण्डों में और अलग-अलग क्षेत्रों में हम इस सामूहिक तबाही का साक्षात् कर चुके हैं, और आज भी कर रहे हैं । हजारो वर्षों के मानवजाति के इतिहास में प्रत्येक मानव-समुदाय के पास अपनी…

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Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind

Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind

Originally posted on Living in the Modem World:

Insanity

In his novel Queen ofAngels, set at the close of 2047, Greg Bear explores the concept of what he calls, “the Country of the Mind”. This, Bear postulates, is the “ground” for all our thoughts. A kind of virtual reality landscape within us where our “big and little selves” – the personality routines which make up the conscious self, and…

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Haile Gerima: I’m not sure I deserve such an honor because of the few films I have done in the world. I didn’t have the resources to have done more. Sankofa (1993), I should have done at least ten sequels because I have fifteen scripts. And so, in a world where one is denied the tools and resources, in that kind of dire state of struggle to gain my right to tell a story, to think of such very insightful emotional dynamics in my work is really a blessing. Now for me, I am a human being who’s been lied to. So when I shoot, it’s, for me, a rifle, it’s a gun, it’s an explosion. Every film is a staircase to respond to my interest to cleanse my own state of occupation. It’s kind of a decolonizing journey, and no one is going to finance me, no one is going to say, “Here’s money to tell another story.” Unless she drives Miss Daisy I have no chance of being financed by the present arrangement.

Read: Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima on Aperture Magazine’s website.

'Sentiment must be outlawed from the domain of science and things should be judged from an objective standpoint. For myself I shall find as much pleasure in a positive destruction of my own ideology, as in a rational disagreement on a topic, which, notwithstanding many learned disquisitions, is likely to remain controversial forever.' Dr. BR Ambedkar, 'Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development'.