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Bengali Rock

November 15th, 2007 8 comments

Ever since the rock star ran away, the “durbar” has been shut down of its usual daily proceedings. Jack Black’s, School of Rock, seeded some thought for one such conclave.

Let me quote from the movie
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Misuse of Imagination

November 8th, 2007 6 comments

One day, Ravindranath Jr, a friend of mine, showed me a poem he wrote. In it he was making a comparison to Icarus who tried to fly with wings of wax seeking the sun, only to fall down when he reached eventually.

He was basically referring to life’s difficulties and that the wings of wax symbolizes our hopes, our aspirations, the dreams,the illusions; and we search for the sun. That is the truth. But the irony is that, if we ever actually find the sun, the wax will melt and we fall like Icarus, but we still are on that quest. Icarus represents the metaphysical rebellion within us, like he himself put it.
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You’ve been beeped!

November 8th, 2007 1 comment

Sometimes signs just dont seem enough, and god sends his messengers to deliver a personal message to you. This is a very strange thing. Like one day there was this french journalist who wanted to write an article on linux as a threat to microsoft. Somehow he was routed to me, and I had to speak out philosophies to him about why this could be a possibility and why it couldnt be. He seemed rather not amused or “converted” even after my usage of strong vocabulary to maximise the effect of the delivery about the feeling of the revolution. Then, he told me something very strange. Rather a very unpleasantly out of the world comment. Read more…

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