A Girl You Should Date. Loved the post. So true. (Blogpost by Rosemarie Urquico)
Month: July 2012
Lashkar by Mukul Deva: Review
Written by Mukul Deva, a retired army man, ‘Lashkar - into the heart of terror' ’is a fascinating novel, set against the most challenging problem that confronts India today – terrorism and diplomacy. The novel efficaciously portrays Indo-Pak relations, cross-border terrorism and statecraft intricately mingled with life of a common man. The first book of the Mukul …
F..R.I.E.N.D.S. ?
“Your college life is already over, tut tut tut”, teased my cousin, who has just entered his first year of college. But I feel no remorse. I am nervous, yes, but I am not sad. Life has come to a full circle. I felt no sorrow when I left school behind, I feel no sorrow …
Religion is the opium of masses
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand... Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. Religion is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." - Karl Marx Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Usually all one gets from the above is “Religion is the opium of the people“
This is one of my favourite quotations. My own beliefs echo this.
Lajja by Taslima Nasrin
An excellent read. When i picked it up, i wanted to know why was it banned, why did it create a furore? Now i know why. Very few authors actually have the courage to write direct criticism about politics. But Taslima Nasrin is a bold writer, not constrained by fear of rejection, criticism or fatwa. …
An End, A Beginning
“A time between ashes and roses is coming. When everything will be extinguished When everything will begin” This is how I feel about this period. A period of transition. Graduation is over and i am waiting for the next phase of my life to begin. Not much will change, I will have a similar routine, …
A Phantasmagoria
Sometimes, I am whelmed by the phantasmagoria of the world around me, and my own meaninglessness in it. My life, which has been a constantly changing medley of images, flashes in front of my eyes and I wonder about the purpose of it all. All of us, at some point or the other, have wondered …
Sundry 