A dusty road, a handful of gates, and a conversation that moved from hell’s doors to Gayatri’s quiet direction. What began as counting ended as orientation. Not every journey completes itself. Some shifts arrive later, in reflection, when you realise you were never crossing gates, only being gently turned.
Tag: Essays
Holi: A Geological Record of The Indian Heart
A bonfire, a full moon, half-ripe grain, protective ash, spring desire, a demoness, and finally colour. Holi may be less a single festival than a layered archive of agrarian, domestic, regional, Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava practices. A Mythoscopy essay on how customs survive by changing their stories.
From Facts to Myths
Memory does not preserve events intact. It compresses them into portable shapes: news, stories, histories, legends and myths. This essay proposes Mythoscopy as a habit of looking, then applies it to epic geography, technology, power, othering and the uncomfortable humanity that survives beneath moral simplification.
The Fantastical Human Brain
The human brain dreams of solving everything with data, models and jargon, while economists reduce the world to incentives, trade-offs and opportunity costs. A deliberately irreverent introduction to economic thinking, with beer included, for readers who prefer their abstractions dragged firmly down to street level.
Mythoscopy: The Living Journey of Stories
Stories survive by changing. From Shabari’s berries to Krishna’s many lives, each era adds what it needs and remembers the result as ancient. This essay proposes Mythoscopy as a way of watching those transformations without reducing them either to literal history or to mere invention.
It’s a Mad World!
A quick piece on partisanship with an extremely opinionated and shallowly researched hypothesis, informed by reading comic books, history books and WhatsApp messages of smarter, surer batchmates of mine | Do read, comment and discuss. Share but beware! | Word Count: 1503 | Flesch Kincaid Grade Level: 5.7 |
Going My Way Brother? – An “Auto”-आपबीति
A collection of four separate incidents. These actually happened to a (now) middle-aged guy. Centred around travel - actual or attempted - by mode of auto rickshaws. Brought to mind by an awful pun hinted at, in the title. Some learnings squeezed out from the memory of a few strange men, and a few good men. One both! Experimental mixed use of four separate languages; English, Hindi, Hinglish and Endi. | Do read, comment and discuss. Share but beware! | Word Count: 2637 |
दशावतार: कुछ पंक्तियाँ ऐसे ही
हिंदी भाषा में इस गद्य-शृंखला का पहला लेख प्रस्तुत है। इस लेख में दशावतार पे कुछ कहने की चेष्टा की गयी है। इतिहास नहीं, इति-भाव का प्रयत्न है। संख्या पे टिप्पणी और कथाओं का सार मिलेगा। त्रुटियाँ और लुप्तियाँ अधिक होंगी, क्षमप्रार्थी हूँ! अंत का निवेदन हृदय से है, कृपया स्वीकार करें। चिंतन और वितरण हेतु। शब्द गणना: 1841।
What Good do Goods Serve?
Is mythology only about gods, goddesses, kings, queens and monsters? Ok... elves, dwarves, unicorns and fairies? What about textbooks? An experiment in academic mythoscopy. | Do read, comment and discuss. Share but beware! | Word Count: 1251 | Flesch Kincaid Grade Level: 4.3 |
The Right to be Wrong
After a few days of stalking the inter-web, a middle-aged person decided to speak up about a phenomenon. The phenomenon of "militant" methods of convincing. The phenomenon of increasing sightings of logical fallacy examples, in the wild. An arbitrarily long list of fallacies was drawn up with some dense language pasted for company. Under the able guidance of a more culturally clued-in friend examples were teased out of Bollywood. Click links for off-sever multi-media experience (Google and Youtube - Content not owned by us!) | Do read, comment and discuss. Share but beware! | Word Count: 5202 | Flesch Kincaid Grade Level: 7.1 |
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