I have an embarassing confession to make, but I shall try backing it up with some logic. I don't think I shall be able to die wilfully for a cause, no matter how serious that cause might be, or however important to me. If you tell me to choose between my life and my girlfriend's …
Category: Views and Observations
Afterdark
I have thought often how it was possible that scores of German soldiers – people, all of them – could take such an active part in mass killings and torture of the Holocaust. It might be that some power was driving the war for its own political reasons, but how could such a thing be …
Landmarks of Kolkata
I have been touring a few spots of central Kolkata recently, and I have had the opportunity to note certain characteristics in some of them. I would like to take you through these. I am hopeful that you won’t get this information presented in just such a way anywhere else. The places that we shall …
Darkness
Now I know how valuable is darkness. If there’s one thing that civilization has lost and should mourn, it is darkness. It lets the mind gather its thoughts and maybe think about a few things that it doesn’t normally do. I am attempting something I have given up for quite some time. How easy it …
Getting Used To
A really bad thing about humans is that they get used to things. They get used to anything, any new thing, however unique or peculiar or unforeseeable, provided the exposure is long enough. That is a bad thing because we forget to look at things in the proper, natural way, and realize how beautiful, how …
One Life 