As an experiment I loved a man who had nothing in common with me. We attempted to live and let live. His ideas were to be his ideas and my ideas were to be my ideas. However, I soon discovered that we could not exist simultaneously. His ideas were antagonist to mine. He was an adversary.In the interest of debate he sparred with me and told me I was totalitarian if I could not recognize his right to have his views. I tried to explain to him that his views were only sustainable if I annihilated myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls
Zoontologies, debating Dalit politics, Ethics and Eating, Civil Religion, Literarity and Hindi writing, time travels, trauma studies.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Heavy-ness
The Hindi dramatist is weighed down by ideology-I am told. English is the language of a new lightness. "The unlive-able weight of conviction", I thought. These are indeed tough times for the fate of that word.
Nomenclature
A nomeclature is an important thing. So why deferral? A friend tells me to always live in the moment but like Vladimir and Estragon, I seem to be forever waiting for something. Most often it is a conversation... I rehearse in my head. Deferral is the continuous putting off ... till later
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