Miriam Makeba Interview, 1969

In the Shadow of the Trylon, New York World’s Fair, 1939, Stanley Rayfield

Happy Birthday, Rousseau

For Rousseau’s birthday, 21 essential reads on education – Bertrand Russell, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Isaac Asimov, Kio Stark, Richard Feynman, and more:

'An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared. There should be varied and free points of contact with other modes of association. .. This is fraternity, which is only another name for democracy. Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.' Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), 'Annihilation of Caste'.

नवज्योति की नव-मीमांसा

नवज्योति की नव-मीमांसा हिन्दुत्व का दार्शनिक विमर्श प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी 1. परम्परा और आधुनिकता युरोपीय आधुनिकता और गैर-युरोपीय परम्पराओं के बीच सम्बन्ध, उनके बीच टकराव और उनकी अन्तःक्रियाएँ पिछली दो शताब्दियों में बौद्धिक विमर्श का अत्यन्त महत्वपूर्ण विषय रही हैं । दुनिया भर के सर्वश्रेष्ठ मस्तिष्कों ने इस विषय पर समग्रता में, और अपने-अपने देशों के संदर्भ में, गहन मंथन किया है और इस विषय पर…

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Adolph Gottlieb, Equinox, 1963

From the Phillips Collection:

Once he felt he had exhausted the myriad possibilities of his pictographs, Gottlieb began to simplify his symbols and composition in order to enhance his theme of universality. By the 1960s, he was creating paintings like Equinox, in which the grid is reduced to an implied (although occasionally delineated) horizontal division that separates the image into two halves. Within each half, a few shapes—circles, squares, or calligraphic gestures—float against a field of color, vying for focal supremacy. Gottlieb creates a tension between the two forms struggling against each other, but in their balance and containment within a field of color, he also achieves a harmonious resolution.

Duncan Phillips acquired his two examples of Gottlieb’s work soon after each was painted, evidence of his appreciation of his art. Although no specific reference to Gottlieb appears in Phillips’s surviving writings, he could have had Gottlieb in mind when he declared in 1955, “I admire the aesthetic interpretations of the age we live in—even the symbols for the anarchy, the turmoil and the inner tensions.”

It’s hard to know where to start in tallying up the explosive revelations in the Panama Papers, an analysis of leaked documents from global law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

न्याय : परिदृश्य और परिप्रेक्ष्य

न्याय : परिदृश्य और परिप्रेक्ष्य प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी प्रस्तावना मानव समाज के शैशव-काल से न्याय का प्रश्न मानव जाति की आत्म-पहचान और उसके आत्म-संगठन का केन्द्रीय प्रश्न रहा है और बदलते स्वरूप में आज तक बना हुआ है । प्रकृति को जानने और उसे बदलने के जरिये जीवनयापन करने वाले मानव-जनों को न सिर्फ अपने और प्रकृति के बीच के सम्बन्धों को, बल्कि मानव-जनों के बीच के सम्बन्धों को भी परिभाषित करना पड़ा…

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Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate (2016).

1962

Stelios Kerasidis(7)- isolation valse ( το βαλς της απομόνωσης)