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No your lordship, everybody opposing Aadhar is not following an“NGO line”: Baidik Bhattacharya

No your lordship, everybody opposing Aadhar is not following an“NGO line”: Baidik Bhattacharya

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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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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via thenovelofus)

Beijie Village: a Land Grab Case, a Village Election, and a Microcosm of China

Beijie Village: a Land Grab Case, a Village Election, and a Microcosm of China

Originally posted on China Change:

By Yaqiu Wang, published: December 16, 2014

An election in a heartland Chinese village in Henan province, held on December 13th, attracted attention from Chinese scholars, netizens and activists. A 73-year-old man, Chen Ji’en (陈纪恩), was re-elected Chairman of the 8th Village Committee of Beijie Village (北街村) by fellow villagers in what was reported by…

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

James Joyce in Araby

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अनन्त का छंद - 1

अनन्त का छंद – 1 एक तत्वशास्त्रीय विमर्श प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी एक पूर्वावलोकन 1. बीसवीं सदी में जहाँ अध्ययन की विभिन्न शाखाओं का पर्याप्त प्रसार हुआ, वहीं तत्वशास्त्र को काफ़ी हद तक अपनी ज़मीन छोड़नी पड़ी । पूंजीवादी विश्व में परिणामवाद और तार्किक प्रत्यक्षवाद के प्रादुर्भाव के साथ तो तत्वशास्त्र मानो गहरी नींद सो गया । समाजवादी विश्व के लिए द्वन्द्वात्मक भौतिकवाद आखिरी खोज थी । सवाल महज उसकी…

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कौतुक के पर्वत का सैलानी लुडविग विट्गेन्स्टाइन की दुनिया प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी 1. व्यक्ति और कृति संसार और जीवन एक हैं । मैं ही अपना संसार हूँ । लुडविग विट्गेन्स्टाइन (‘ट्रैक्टेटस लॉजिको-फ़िलोसॉफ़िकस’, 5.621, 5.63) । निश्चय ही यह अब तक प्रकाशित दार्शनिक कृतियों में सबसे पहेलीनुमा रचनाओं में से है : तर्कशास्त्रियों के लिए कुछ ज्यादा ही रहस्यात्मक, रहस्यवादियों के लिए कुछ ज्यादा ही तकनीकी,…

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अनन्त का छंद - 9

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'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'.

This is the one and only original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Morgan Library and Museum displays Charles Dickens’s original manuscript of A Christmas Carol in Pierpont Morgan’s historic Library until January 13, 2013. Dickens wrote his iconic tale in a six-week flurry of activity, beginning in October 1843 and ending in time for Christmas publication. He had the manuscript bound in red morocco as a gift for his solicitor, Thomas Mitton. The manuscript then passed through several owners before Pierpont Morgan acquired it in the 1890s. 

It reveals Dickens’s method of composition, allowing us to glimpse the author at work. he began writing the story in October 1843, completing it in only six weeks. His apparently contiguous pace of writing and revision was urgent but moldly confident. The interlinear revisions increase the story’s vividness: text is struck out with a continuous looping movement of the pen and replaced with more active verbs and fewer words to achieve greater concision. Dickens sent this manuscript to the printer in early December, and the book was published in time for the Christmas market. [The Morgan, 2012] (photo: yyz2nyc)