Mind-Prints

Handprints, originally uploaded by teldow.
COGITO, ERGO SUM
I think, therefore I am

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When Will I Read This?

and time, it marches ever on, originally uploaded by morning breath.
What a picture! The clock is ticking. And I have still not attempted seriously to read this book. I bought Sartre’s Being and Nothingness around 6 months back but have yet not managed beyond the first few pages. This is definitely one [...]

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WHY?

WHY?, originally uploaded by crayon paper.
I just love the surrealism here, as if a symbolism of the very word WHY, which more often than not floats in our minds in one context or the other

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Existentialism

Existentialism, originally uploaded by somewherein72.
I have been reading a lot of existentialism and found this on Flickr. It is a very well done image. However, to be fair to the philosophy, I would have preferred Love, Living, and Being to be bigger in size than Meaninglessness, Negative Impulse, and Society

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus, originally uploaded by stuartliroff.
I consider him ‘the absurd hero’. Through his theory of absurd, he has given us one of the most practical ways of living life meaningfully. Paradoxical as it may sound, he starts with asserting life has no meaning. For more from me on him visit Albert Camus – [...]

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Camus on NY Subway

Camus on NY Subway, originally uploaded by Paull Young.
Absolutely lovely picture. Personally, I have associated Camus with ‘truth’ as I understand it. Has been my favorite author and philosopher.
My favorite Camus wisdom: “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn”

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We Need to Touch the Rock Bottom

Every time the Supreme Court or one of our High Courts decides to enter the social or political arena from their regular habitat at the jurisprudential or legal ones, we cheer them for what is now commonly known as ‘Judicial Activism’. Be it Justice Krishna Iyer, Bhagwati, the one-man green bench Kuldip Singh or some [...]

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Bookreco – Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd

This is a science fiction by a historian. Rightly placed in metafiction category. Has nothing to do with the greek Plato. Great humour and brilliant exposition of a future world if all records of current world are deleted. Shows how susceptible human beings are to conditionining.

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Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd

This is a science fiction by a historian. Rightly placed in metafiction category. Has nothing to do with the greek Plato. Great humour and brilliant exposition of a future world if all records of current world are deleted. Shows how susceptible human beings are to conditionining.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce wrote this as an early life autobiography. It’s properly fiction, though resembles his own experiences of growing up. It’s called by the critics as a “stream of conciousness” novel, which you know when you read. Language is too british, as in the conversation etc. The last 50 pages are brilliant. A must read for [...]

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