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Egalite for All. Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (PBS) PBS documentary on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.  It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It grasped the full meaning of French revolutionary ideas — liberté, eqalité, fraternité — and used them to create the world’s first Black republic. It changed the trajectory of colonial economics…and led to America’s acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France. “It” was the Haitian Revolution, a movement that’s been called the true birth moment of universal human rights. Vaguely remembered today, the Haitian Revolution was a hurricane at the turn of the nineteenth century — traumatizing Southern planters and inspiring slaves and abolitionists, worldwide.

अनन्त का छंद - 3

अनन्त का छंद – 3 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी सृष्टि 29. पूरी सृष्टि में एक अनन्त शक्ति व्याप्त है – आत्म-पुनरुत्पादन की शक्ति । अन्य सारी शक्तियाँ इसी अनन्त शक्ति की उपज हैं । 30. आखिर अनन्त है क्या ? आत्म-पुनरुत्पादन की शक्ति ही अनन्त है । सूक्ष्म कण के रूप में इसे हम स्पिन ∞ का माया कण (वर्चुअल पार्टिकल ऑफ स्पिन इनफिनिटी) कह सकते हैं । 31. आत्म-पुनरुत्पादन की प्रक्रिया में आये व्यवधान/विच्युति…

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Working Women's Day Celebrations, Nepal.

John Smith on Imperialism in the 21st Century John Smith’s book on imperialism is a groundbreaking work revealing the super-exploitation of the global south. Daphna Whitmore from Redline interviewed him about his book.

Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their eviction from an old indigenous museum which they have been living in for the past 7 years.

On March 22nd all of the inhabitants and their supporters were forcibly removed or arrested.

The building is being destroyed to make a parking lot :(

अनन्त का छंद - 8

अनन्त का छंद – 8 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी ङ. कला-साहित्य 103. साहित्य सचेत अस्तित्व के इन चार कारकों की जटिल अन्तःक्रिया का निरूपण है । साहित्य में रचनाकार अपनी तमाम व्यक्तिगत विशिष्टताओं बावज़ूद, और उनके साथ, सचेत अस्तित्व को पुनः सृजित करने की कोशिश करता है और इसी कोशिश के परिणामस्वरूप कालजयी कृतियाँ सामने आती हैं । सृजन की यह बेचैनी हर रचनाकार में मौज़ूद रहती है । ‘क्या मैं सिरज नहीं सकता ?/कर…

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Many highly creative people [display] personal behavior [that] sometimes strikes others as odd. Albert Einstein picked up cigarette butts off the street to get tobacco for his pipe; Howard Hughes spent entire days on a chair in the middle of the supposedly germ-free zone of his Beverly Hills Hotel suite; the composer Robert Schumann believed that his musical compositions were dictated to him by Beethoven and other deceased luminaries from their tombs; and Charles Dickens is said to have fended off imaginary urchins with his umbrella as he walked the streets of London. […] In fact, creativity and eccentricity often go hand in hand, and researchers now believe that both traits may be a result of how the brain filters incoming information. Even in the business world, there is a growing appreciation of the link between creative thinking and unconventional behavior, with increased acceptance of the latter. … In the past few decades psychologists and other scientists have explored the connection using empirically validated measures of both creativity and eccentricity. [The latter is measured] using scales that assess schizotypal personality … which is among a cluster of personality disorders labeled ‘odd or eccentric’ in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. […] A brain-imaging study, done in 2010 by investigators at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, suggests the propensity for both creative insights and schizotypal experiences may result from a specific configuration of neurotransmitter receptors in the brain. Using positron-emission tomography, Örjan de Manzano, Fredrik Ullén and their colleagues examined the density of dopamine D2 receptors in the subcortical region of the thalamus in 14 subjects who were tested for divergent-thinking skills. The results indicate that thalamic D2 receptor densities are diminished in subjects with high divergent-thinking abilities, similar to patterns found in schizophrenic subjects in previous studies. The researchers believe that reduced dopamine binding in the thalamus, found in both creative and schizophrenic subjects, may decrease cognitive filtering and allow more information into conscious awareness.

Fascinating Scientific American article on why creative people tend to be eccentric. For real-life case studies, look no further than the odd habits and eccentric behaviors of famous writers. (via explore-blog)

Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.

The great Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on beginnings – wonderful read.

A CRITIQUE OF THOMAS PIKETTY'S 'CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY' - 3

A CRITIQUE OF THOMAS PIKETTY’S ‘CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY’ – 3

  CONTAINING CAPITAL – 3

  Prasanna K Choudhary

Thomas Piketty zimbio.com

3. CAPITAL SOCIAL AND SELF-EXPANDING – 1

MONEY IS NOW PREGNANT. Goethe, ‘Faust’, Part I, Scene5.1

Let me begin with Thomas Piketty’s definition of capital, labor and ‘return on capital’. After all, ‘capital’ and ‘return on capital’ form the basic theme of the book.

Piketty writes, “In this book, capital is defined as the…

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