Ragging

Ragging proves that being trained and claimed for sensitivity does nothing to your basic instincts; you remain human, despite an education.

Judgements

Judgements are subjective, subjects are judgemental.

Stories 02

Even boredom has to be engaging in a story.

Stories

Stories are where we find reaffirmation of our beliefs; they are also where we sometimes find beliefs themselves.

Life around us, before us, beyond us ...

Life around us, before us, beyond us - should necessarily surround a writer; for he/she surrenders, in order to win over for us what's around, beyond or before.

Life remembered is life experienced

Life remembered is life experienced; its in the memory of it that the moment exists.

Relationships

Relationships rarely give you what you had originally sought; instead there are surprises, sometimes pleasant.

What Women want

What Women want: Provider, Stud and a Fan. What Women get: Real Men.

What Men want

What Men want: Goddess, Nurse and a Whore. What Men get: Real Women.

Beyond bullets and ballots.

Kashmir is not a security question; its a political one. Beyond bullets and ballots.

The idea of a 'Nation'

'Nation' is a contested idea, subject to the vicissitudes of time past, present or future. What seems untenable today may not be so some time later. The idea of India itself is an example to that effect.

Film appreciation

Film appreciation is less about films and more about appreciation.

Religion

Religion is opium of the masses; the classes are high anyways.

Marriage is a bond

Marriage is a bond; not the james one, stupid !

Romance

Romance is a state of the mind, a destructive mind.

Experience

Experience is experienced in retrospect, when it is no longer possible to influence it.

Company

To seek company is to weigh down the need; to give company is to provide it wings.

Film, photograph, record, write ...

Film, photograph, record, write, draw, paint - don't experience.

Familiarity and Distance

Familiarity breeds a disproportionate distance. Duration (or, rather, lack of) makes distance unusually familiar.

A Medieval Religion ?

Are some religions more medieval than others; or are some medievals more religious than others ?

Male of the species

I have tremendous affection for the male of the species; he is so fucked up.

Skin, bone, muscles and organs

Are we the skin, bone, muscles and organs which make us; or are we the consciousness of our being skin, bone, muscles and organs. In which case how can a stark portrayal of the former lead us to the withdrawing sensibilities of the latter ?