Alice Munro: “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” : The New Yorker

अनन्त का छंद - 8

अनन्त का छंद – 8 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी ङ. कला-साहित्य 103. साहित्य सचेत अस्तित्व के इन चार कारकों की जटिल अन्तःक्रिया का निरूपण है । साहित्य में रचनाकार अपनी तमाम व्यक्तिगत विशिष्टताओं बावज़ूद, और उनके साथ, सचेत अस्तित्व को पुनः सृजित करने की कोशिश करता है और इसी कोशिश के परिणामस्वरूप कालजयी कृतियाँ सामने आती हैं । सृजन की यह बेचैनी हर रचनाकार में मौज़ूद रहती है । ‘क्या मैं सिरज नहीं सकता ?/कर…

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“Incantation. A prayer for apps and the latest whatever, sung by “the witch”. New things to try, a desperation, an automation to it. A heaviness, as if being joined by a yoke to our technology, it’s dragging us, making us pay per download. We’re it’s slave.”

Leah Kardos’s album “Machines”, a song cycle based on themes of technology, loneliness and the human condition, with lyrics derived from spam emails. (via Tom A.)

The Nightmare (alternate version) by Fussli, 1802.

Alfred Wertheimer’s never-before-seen photos of Elvis when he was a 21-year-old up-and-coming crooner.

Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind

Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind

Originally posted on Living in the Modem World:

Insanity

In his novel Queen ofAngels, set at the close of 2047, Greg Bear explores the concept of what he calls, “the Country of the Mind”. This, Bear postulates, is the “ground” for all our thoughts. A kind of virtual reality landscape within us where our “big and little selves” – the personality routines which make up the conscious self, and…

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IMG_0333 by Pooja Pant on Flickr.

Working Women's Day Celebrations, Nepal.

"In India all religions hold in common the idea of two indivisible elements, a male and female principle, Purusha and Prakrti, or Shiva and Shakti. The two elements originate in a single primordial being which manifests a 'desire to create'. From a unitary state of repose this emergent, but creative, tension gives birth to the universe and the multiplicity of beings and things of this world in a state of unceasing instability and flux, of time and constant change, of birth, reproduction, decay, death and rebirth. Out of a permanent coition of opposites the many are born, and with them confusion, antagonism, separateness. But the universe longs to regain its primordial state of oneness, and seeks to reverse the fragmentation. The return path, or restoration of lost unity, is the business of religion, yoga, ritualized sex, and its opposite : rigorous asceticism. These comprise a tool-kit of diverse, and divergent, religious techniques."

Richard Lannoy and Harry Baines, 'The Eye of Love', Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1976.

अनन्त का छंद - 4

अनन्त का छंद – 4 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी मनुष्य का अस्तित्व क. सामान्य 45. मनुष्य के अस्तित्व की एक विलक्षणता यह है कि वह अपने विकसित मस्तिष्क के साथ जन्म ही नहीं ले सकता ।22 उसके मस्तिष्क का पूर्ण विकास जन्म के डेढ़-दो साल बाद जाकर सम्पन्न होता है । उसके अस्तित्व की इस विलक्षणता के कारण उसकी प्रोग्रेमिंग में एक फांक उत्पन्न हो जाती है । वह पूरी तरह नियोजित प्राणी नहीं है । नियोजन की यह कमी ही…

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Long Live the Legacy of Comrade Vemula Rohith Chakravarthy : Statement by New Socialist Initiative (NSI)

Long Live the Legacy of Comrade Vemula Rohith Chakravarthy : Statement by New Socialist Initiative (NSI)

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