had a chat with Pradeep today,and I remembered a parable,when our chat took a philosophical twist?
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a child was playing with clay,he started creating images out of clay,he made earth, moon, stars, planets,he created fish, animals, water,and soon he created men,they all came to life, in the imagination of child.
soon, men [...]
While driving,
I saw…
Few gulls,
Making noises and having fun in the air,
As if they had come for the picnic,
From the seashore, which was their home.
Puffed clouds,
Aware, omnipresent, detached,
Floating in the blinding white sky.
Not forcing themselves,
Just going with the flow
A farmland,
Silently grazing innocent cattle,
Unaware that, They will soon become,
Breakfast for humans.
I stopped seeing…
And just [...]
I recently saw “Bandit Queen”, movie by Shekar Kapur. Indeed it was a brilliantly made movie, and I should say the movie explicitly pointed out some of the ills (unfortunately) still affecting India. The movie was based on the life of Phoolan Devi, the dacoit of the chambal, but phoolan devi herself [...]
BBC celebrated this week as Islam week. I watched a program late night on BBC2 about Islam, and the civilization that it has been, around the period of 900 AD to 1100 AD. It was a wonderful program, which cleared some misconceptions about Islam. Islamic civilization reached the peak during this period. [...]
