फ़ासीवाद और हिन्दुत्व

“A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.”

John Hollander (via theparisreview)

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Suchitra Sen (06.04.1931 - 17.01.2014)

Born Roma Dasgupta at Pabna, Bangladesh.

Some of her memorable films: Devdas (1955), Deep Jwele Jaai (1959), Saptapadi (1961), Uttar Falguni (1963), Saat Paake Bandha (1963). Mamta (1966), Aandhi (1975).

Photo: www.thehindu.com 

Robert Frost: Darkness or Light? : The New Yorker

Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life - Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News

The pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life.

The pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life.

"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. .... The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. ... Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ... Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ..."

Umberto Eco, 'The Name of the Rose', Vintage Books, London, 2004.

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

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

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYa3_Ph7nHc)

“With the anointment of Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Narendra Modi’s cunningly crafted ‘development’ mask has been ripped apart. .. There is much more to democracy than elections and legislative majorities. Even outside the realm of politics, battles need to be fought every day in every space to safeguard small freedoms, ensure peace, secure justice. Despair is an indulgence engaged citizens cannot afford - especially in light of the decision in UP.”

Helen Levitt, Children with Soap Bubbles, New York City, c. 1945

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Helen Levitt’s photographs of everyday life in her own New York neighborhood have epitomized domestic urban life for over sixty years. This image of children - one of her most common subjects - demonstrates Levitt’s astute portrayal of gesture, praised as “lyrical” by James Agee in the introduction to her book, A Way of Seeing. As the viewer’s attention echoes the children’s glance toward the left of the scene, the picture poses a riddle as to the bubbles’ source, transforming this gritty city street into a magical metropolitan playground.

IMG_8020 by Pooja Pant