Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Tagore
The colours of my May are as yellow as the golden showers. The 7th of this month, the twenty-fifth day of Boishakh in the Bengali calendar, marked the...
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Entertainment
Lately, I find myself surprisingly content—perhaps even fortunate. I experienced the great stillness, that strange gift of witnessing how Brahma mig...
Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Books
The final bell echoes through the book fair, and silence settles like dust. An artist alone in a hotel room after the curtain falls, packing costumes ...
Insight from the Corpus
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“Krishna is also used in the sense of "karshate iti Krishna"—meaning one who attracts. In Yoga philosophy, he is the presiding deity of the Ajna chakra. He attracts and pulls up Arjuna, who is stuck in the Manipura chakra. This is the essence of the Gita in Yoga philosophy.”
Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Masturbation
I haven’t been able to write even ten sentences together for nearly a year. The only thing I managed to write during this time was a letter to my co...
Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Words
The word Deśa is an equivalent of the sky. The hr̥day, a parallel to the sky. I quite enjoy these linguistic games. In this way, the word “book”...
Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Conversations
The way we react to news—do we ever bow down to the events in our own lives with the same intensity? Take the #DepressionKills wave that gripped us ...
Reader's Pause
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“In human lives, I have observed three main desires: wealth, power, and knowledge. I have one more—Rasa (The Universal Emotion). This desire is so intense that it can easily overshadow the other three.”
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