Ubiquitous

A conversation between language, making, relations, and the being of objects रूप नाम आधीना। रूप ग्यान नहिं नाम बिहीना॥रूप बिसेष नाम बिनु जानें। करतल गत न परहिं पहिचानें॥ This is from Ramcharitmanas, and it was the starting point of an epiphany for me. A rough sense of the passage is that form is dependent upon name; without name, form cannot be known, and without knowing the name of a particular form, it cannot be properly recognised. I have returned to these lines many time

I have taken time to explain. Why do I argue? Today’s post is about: why do I argue? I have been a big fan of arguments. I don’t like to get into them, but I love to observe. I find argument to be one of the most interesting things that humans do. It is not a very profound idea, but it’s something that I have understood by talking with people around me and reflecting on them. So, if you find your ideas in it, it’s probably yours. I am just a medium through which this thought

I have written a poem called - Point and a Tangent… A thought came to me, I was by the congruence of two unrelated events in a day, one I...

Design, Tools, and the Soul of Civilization: A Reflection in the Spirit of Louis Mumford When Louis Mumford penned Technics and...