Filed Under: Philosophy
When we renounce our dreams and find peace, we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being. We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this cruelty against ourselves. That’s when illnesses and psychoses arise. What we sought to avoid in combat – disappointment and defeat – come upon us because of our cowardice.
Filed Under: Philosophy
I mourn the loss of ‘being disconnected’. In the ‘pre-internet’ era, I would go out to school and that’s it, I was off the grid, no one would know where I was, till I came back (I used to be in school only, if you were wondering). But, today with the advent of ‘internet’ and more so with the ‘smart phone’ there is no more ‘off the grid’. We are always online — always connected. Isn’t it strange that we now talk about life as ‘online’ & ‘offline’? I don’t recollect having these concepts ten years back.
Filed Under: Philosophy
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Filed Under: Philosophy
A flop when released, but considered a classic with cult following today, Raj Kapoor’s magnum opus ‘Mera Naam Joker (my name is joker)’ is one of my favourite films. Semi-autobiographical in nature, made by Raj Kapoor himself, the story is of Raju a clown in a circus, who must always make people laugh, no matter how unhappy he is within. In the words of his circus manager, no matter what happens, he needs to always have a smile on his face because, ‘the show must go on’. Along the course of the film Raju loves & loses again and again. This circle of hope and pain is conveyed very effectively by the use of a joker doll which Raju owns. Everytime he falls in love, he gifts the toy to that woman, only to have it come back to him in the end. The doll is a metaphor for Raju’s heart which no one wants.
Filed Under: Philosophy
What is this life if, full of care
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
