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Scribbles (That Aren't): February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Learning a Little Loss. You don't know what you've got till it's gone.". Words of wisdom that everyone is fated to pass on. And to ignore. Loss comes to us in many different ways and in many different forms, some so subtle and unrecognizable that it is only after you carefully and consciously sift through the misty haze of the experience itself, that you realize something is dislocated, missing, lost. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. A Call to Disarm.
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Scribbles (That Aren't): Between Utter Certainty and Pervasive Doubt
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Saturday, October 13, 2012. Between Utter Certainty and Pervasive Doubt. At the time, I was annoyed enough to want to remind him that 'hell' is theoretically and philosophically speaking, not a construct consistent with our theology. Was he sure, I wanted to ask, that he didn't just mean these reprobates would reincarnate as cockroaches? But sarcasm doesn't always yield results when it comes to five-year-olds. So I retained my high ground and glared. They help you decide how you feel about things. Like r...
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Scribbles (That Aren't): Tending to Personal Micro-Cultures
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Saturday, February 25, 2012. Tending to Personal Micro-Cultures. I was browsing through one of my favourite websites. This morning, and chanced upon the novelist William Gibson's lovely concept of a 'personal micro-culture.' Lovely and compelling because when you think about it, what are we, after all, other than the sum of our experiences, our relationships and our taste? Is it me, or is it not? Can I live with it, or will I get bored? Don't they realize that's tacky? What were they thinking? People who...
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Scribbles (That Aren't): Learning a Little Loss
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Learning a Little Loss. You don't know what you've got till it's gone.". Words of wisdom that everyone is fated to pass on. And to ignore. Loss comes to us in many different ways and in many different forms, some so subtle and unrecognizable that it is only after you carefully and consciously sift through the misty haze of the experience itself, that you realize something is dislocated, missing, lost. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Scribbles (That Aren't): Finding my Inner Fanboy
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. Finding my Inner Fanboy. Think about the next paragraph as a series of increasingly smaller concentric circles. It's not essential to do so, in fact it's entirely unnecessary, but it might be fun. But we were the country's last generation of pre-lib children and we were blissfully unaware. And has worked through a short-lived Mindy Project phase less than six months back. I've tried to diagnose my affection for the show and its characters by reading critics' reviews, by lookin...
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Scribbles (That Aren't): January 2014
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Saturday, January 25, 2014. Seeking a Social Compass. It's one of those words that is much, much crueler than it looks; that when said out loud manages to sound deceptively decorous, conveying in refined syllables an emotion that could physically, metaphorically, slowly, surely crush a person with its weight; that forms the organizing theme of books, music, art, poetry, wishful thinking and waking nightmares. Regret. A little word for a big thing. As being abiding and un-fixable and inescapable? Maybe it...
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Scribbles (That Aren't): September 2013
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Saturday, September 28, 2013. I enjoy the rains. In the absence of any honest-to-goodness. In the vein of my previous post, it really is nice to notice. So much better than the alternative. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Need I say more? When did I stop looking at people and noticing their oddities? Did this non-seeing start with digital music players and become cemented by cellphones and smartphones? Are people less striking and interesting today than they were when Christie wrote? Should we be more curiou...
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Scribbles (That Aren't): July 2014
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Thursday, July 31, 2014. Why do we value doing things quickly quite as much as we seem to? What psychological prop does our in-built sense of urgency provide? Why do we cling to self-imposed deadlines while claiming to abhor and labour reluctantly under them? Once it becomes apparent that our personal worlds don't quite crumble when we give ourselves a little temporal leeway, it becomes harder to justify our perpetual time-crunching, task-juggling dance. Just a theory. Now that I have the time. I was goo...
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Scribbles (That Aren't): May 2014
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Sunday, May 25, 2014. What Money Can't Buy' - Agreement with Asterisks. I first heard about Michael J. Sandel, a 'rockstar academic,' only very recently. He was travelling through the city on a promotional tour for his book, 'What Money Can't Buy.' I read a couple of his interviews, attended his Asia Society Lecture (which was massively oversubscribed) and was intrigued enough by his thesis to buy his book. Sandel argues that we are moving from being societies that have. How do we decide? Sandel doesn't ...
