From Milan Kundera’s Ignorance
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
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My favorite sage once told me "better look out" else you won't "see" :-) Caveat: Wannabe poet, so a lot of these posts are just poetic license.
I am a Twit :-)
Taxonomy of life
- ....what a way to go
- ...is never more than 60 seconds away
- A to Zen
- above the rim
- ah...I get the joke
- Art tart fart part
- Bakasur Breaks Bread
- ball and chain
- brief unified theory of everything
- buffet lunch
- Click Shoot Snap..Will not be gone in 60 years
- Dilbert Desibert Dogbert Duhhhbert....ahhhh
- Every story has an end
- every story is a blatant lie
- food of life
- fool and his money
- Getup....standup....standup for a laugh
- hard reboot at 40 :-)
- have you ever seen beyond the plane?
- I eat so I exist
- I think so I am a bigot
- I wake up for the coffee
- I wet my own canvas
- Idle Warship
- is that a book end?
- Is the world an oyster
- Is there a bend in the book end?
- Just another technicality
- kaun sa koan
- lose the self find the oneself
- mahabharata
- man walks into a rabbit hole
- now vs then
- of maya and mithya
- playing god
- potty mouth in a potty world
- Raavan and his chuddie
- random spotless mind
- rhyme and more money
- ride the wind
- Running fast - away from death
- search of a truth
- Spin a Tail
- Still developing
- Sub Urban Edge
- the fast one called the written word
- The long and the short of a knife being twisted in
- The longform of the shortform
- the poet who lied
- there is no rule around drool
- trivial pursuit
- Twin Towers of (No.....not of Miss Anderson)
- We are all dying.....
- We are the champions of the world
- we could be heroes for just one day
- what is love?
- whats in a name
- whats the good word?
- zen warrior
Flowing river water...what is past, present and future
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- 1931 : When the year ends
- 1930 : Best Startup
- 1929 : Rooted
- 1928 : CARAN D'ACHE BUDDHA DIAMOND PEN
- 1927 : Potential Barrier
- 1926 : Nokia
- 1925 : Posturing
- 1924 : The carnivore in me
- 1923 : Breadworks @ Bangalore (The best bread in t...
- 1922 : The cancer in me
- 1921 : Free will
- 1920 : My current reading list
- 1919 : The story of my past
- 1918 : A nice thought for the future :-)
- 1917 : Broken Arrow
- 1916 : RIP : The sparrow just died
- 1915 : At the end of the day (2012)
- 1914 : Salman and I (By Ruchir Joshi)
- 1913 : Annapurna Devi and Ravi Shankar (From Man’s...
- 1912 : Tokenism
- 1911 : Are you there yet?
- 1910 : Sounds like we are just about there
- 1909 : Losing speed
- 1908 : The (D)rape of my country
- 1907 : Night rider
- 1906 : Its just another rumor
- 1905 : CBR BRR BRR BRRRRR BRRRRRRRR
- 1904 : The poet who flied
- 1903 : The light is gone forever
- 1902 : The disquiet within
- 1901 : What ticks you off the average
- 1900 : Great places to eat
- 1899 : An army that lives in a glass house
- 1898 : Tough day
- 1897 : The dealer
- 1896 : Beethoven’s 9th Choral edition
- 1895 : The perpetual race
- 1894 : The humble OTG
- 1893 : The Kumar Gandharv in me
- 1892 : Hero
- 1891 : What a wonderful world
- 1890 : Why I like the Tabla
- 1889 : Lets turn pain on its head
- 1888 Sultan Khan : The notes to infinity
- 1887 : The point of no return (My own little Zen K...
- 1886 : From the ear of a 12 year old
- 1885 : The challenge of dimensions
- 1884 : Rat a tattle
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Apostles of Irony
- Alan Watts - All of his books continue to influence me
- Ayn Rand - Used to like all her books at one point
- EF Schumacher - Small is beautiful - Economics 101 be damned
- Hazel Henderson - Sustainable Economics - What we should all be taught in college...
- John Robbins - The Food Revolution - Finest book to understand the economics of food
- Maninder Singh - Friend, Father Figure, Thinker and former boss.
- Robert Pirsig - Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - .a better book on "quality" and "perfection" has not been written
- Ruchir Joshi ...The Last Jet Engine Laugh (Brilliant)
- Salman Rushdie - Made we want to be a writer
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