Helen Levitt, Children With Soap Bubbles, New York City, C. 1945

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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‘Fake News’ in America: Homegrown, and Far From New (from @Truthdig)

‘Fake News’ in America: Homegrown, and Far From New (from @Truthdig)

For decades, the media have been dominated by manufactured reports. This skillful manipulation of information erased the lines between fact and opinion and gave rise to the demagogue who will sit in the Oval Office. – 2016/12/18

Source: ‘Fake News’ in America: Homegrown, and Far From New (from @Truthdig)

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अनन्त का छंद - 2

अनन्त का छंद – 2 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी भारतीय चिन्तन विधि 13. दर्शन क्षण में अनन्त की स्मृति है, नश्वर में शाश्वत का शब्द है, मूर्त में अमूर्त का अभ्युदय है । सृष्टि – अदृश्य सूक्ष्म कणों से लेकर नीहारिकाओं तक, जीवाणुओं से लेकर मनुष्य तक – इसी सान्त और अनन्त के, नश्वर और अनश्वर के, वचनीय और अनिर्वचनीय के, मूर्त और अमूर्त के अन्तहीन अन्तःमिश्रण का सिलसिला है, प्रवाह है । सत्य सान्त को अनन्त से,…

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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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Dr B R Ambedkar (14.04.1891 - 06.12.1956)

Great social reformer, philosopher, jurist, political leader, historian and economist. Independent India's first Law Minister and Chairperson of the Constitution's Drafting Committee (29.08.1947 - 24.01.1950).

A few quotes from his writings:

"Every act of independent thinking puts some portion of apparently stable world in peril."

"For a successful revolution, it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."

"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government."

"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

Today is his 123rd birth anniversary.

On View: Imran Qureshi’s Rooftop Installation at the Metropolitan Museum

Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s installation And How Many Rains Must Fall Before the Stains are Washed Clean in The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Rooftop Garden is as arresting as it is unconventional. Delicate floral designs sprawl out across the museum’s rooftop, painted like a mural on the floor. The painstakingly-rendered flowers are drowned in crimson paint. The work’s delicate beauty becomes bittersweet, tainted by the violence of the red stains. Qureshi created the installation as an expression of sorrow for violence across the world; the floral patterns amid the blood-like splatters speak to a hope for regeneration. Take a look at some photos of Qureshi completing the work as well as the finished installation courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Hyla Skopitz. The installation is on view at the Metropolitan Museum through November 3, weather permitting.

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Chanel Dupree - "Delusions" (NPS 2014)

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony took it into its head to catch up with Europe. It has been so successful that the United States of America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth