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ision irfan did have more than a look into the hallowed halls of not just indian cinema international cinema too he proved to the world that he had so much more to offer than the stereotypes of slumdog millionaire however what was strikingly remarkable about him was that he kept his endearing persona exactly the same even after more than 30 years of an acting career that scaled incredible heights pick any movie you will know what went through the minds of each of irfan s characters their joys and struggles would appear so real more so in an indian setting incidentally the majority of his movies had journeys as a theme in which irfaan reveled while unwinding the inner transformation of his own and others around him he cherished the quintessential indian and it was easy for anyone to spot irfan has been having a look into them from outside in paan singh tomar 2012 there was a scene when irfan s character has had his chance to avenge the adversary who d forced him off the edge of endurance and made him lose everything he earned from a lifetime of steeplechases against all odds he wanted now time to stop and plead his case to his nemesis and ruminate over what could have been how a callous society failed a soldier and a champion athlete you d feel the same anguish you had watching the doctor lose the game of wits with the world in ward no 6 irfan brings you closer to the character and his world again you wouldn t see irfan make gratuitous statements for political masters or find him hang out among elites stoking religious divisions he was still an outsider having a look into the world to redeem it for all of us he will be missed rip at may 11 2020 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest pandemic a virus latched on to the human microbiome and turned this world upside down it traveled across nations and continents without a passport but used all that humans had achieved over a million years to move from main street to mars even in the age of travel bans for whimsical reasons the sudden surge in the spread and the mortality rates have spooked governments and people alike the systems we have built to shield and preserve ourselves are teetering at the edge of collapse it is staggering to think that if the virus was a bit more lethal than it already is civilization as we know could have been facing its worst existential threat i hope the price to conquer this unseen enemy will not be too high by the time when it will be over in the meantime it is important to keep the senses normal as much as possible when everything normal as we know daily rides to school work grocery stores weekend visits to family and friends have been halted we are quarantining ourselves at home county states and countries to wait out the pandemic and survive the long line of migrant workers in delhi walking the longest distance home doctors and nurses appealing for supplies and medical equipment from the corners of new orleans and new jersey are stark reminders that the system is under heavy stress jose saramago s dystopian novel blindness is a chilling inquiry into what makes us human in the face of an epidemic of white blindness the eerie sense of panic we feel now is the backdrop of saramago s story in which the fabric of society is torn apart when the government attempting to contain the contagion with increasingly inept and repressive measures while overcrowded asylums degrade living conditions surrounded by military the internees battle each other and burn down the asylum only to find that the army has abandoned the asylum who afterwards join the throngs of wandering blind people in a devastated city to fight and survive the story ends with the ailment vanishing as suddenly and inexplicably as it had begun but not before putting human capacity to cope with its ultimate test for our own sake let s keep everyone s health and wellbeing in our prayers and hope for a flattened curve and cure soon at may 11 2020 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday december 22 2019 a wounded civilization india will go on that was what r k narayan told v s naipaul about the future of india soon after sitting among the ruins of the hindu kingdom of vijayanagar naipaul found it impossible to associate the past grandeur with the present squalor he saw in hospet a town not far from the ruins he called it an unending nullity of the peasant serf countryside it was as if nothing had existed that spoke directly to the fabulous history and he wondered about the intellectual depletion that must have come to india with invasions and conquests of the last thousand years what happened in vijayanagar has happened in other parts of the country in varying degrees in the north ruin lay on ruin moslem ruin on hindu ruin moslem on moslem in history books in the accounts of wars and conquests and plunder the intellectual depletion passes unnoticed india absorbs and outlasts its conquerors indians say but at vijayanagar one wondered whether intellectually for a thousand years india hadn t always retreated before its conquerors and whether in its periods of apparent revival india hadn t been making itself archaic again intellectually smaller always vulnerable the bitter subjection of india by the british led to the rekindling of intellectual recruitment when indian nationalism proclaimed the indian past religion was inextricably mixed with political awakening but there was always a contradiction between the archaism of national pride and the promise of the new the contradiction has at last cracked the civilization open the turbulence in india hasn t come from foreign invasion or conquest it has been generated from within india cannot respond in her old way by a further retreat into archaism her borrowed institutions worked like borrowed institutions but archaic india can provide no substitutions for the press parliament and courts the crisis of india is not only political or economic the larger crisis is of a wounded old civilization that has at last become aware of its inadequacies and is without the intellectual means to move ahead naipaul wouldn t be off the mark if he were to repeat his opinion on the political turbulence that is rocking india now after seventy years of democracy india is still in the throes of civilizational strife where hindus and moslems are pitted against each other national pride and the ideology of religion cannot but take the place of democratic institutions and processes taking on big ticket entry into democracy demands intellectual discourse and the ability to find common grounds even when you have absolute power progressive political parties having lost arguments of their own ideology two decades ago have co opted political islam to stay afloat and claw back into power however the disproportionate power they wield in media and academia has come to bear as a corrosive agent preventing honest intellectual inquiry a wounded civilization v s naipaul at december 22 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 17 2019 on carlson s hoax turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer things fall apart the center cannot hold mere anarchy is loosed upon the world the blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity w b yeats at august 17 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday july 01 2017 saving the world it came about in this way during the children s revolt of the sixties and the seventies i was just old enough to understand what these kids had in mind they meant to turn the world upside down just young enough to believe that they might actually succeed it s true every morning when i opened my eyes i expected to see that the new era had begun that the sky was a brighter blue and the grass a brighter green i expected to hear laughter in the air to see people dancing in the street not just kids everyone i won t apologize for my naivete you only have to listen to the songs that i wasn t alone then one day when i was in the mid teens i woke up and realized that the new era was never going to begin the revolt hadn t been put down it had just dwindled away into a fashion statement can i have been the only person in the world who was disillusioned by this bewildered by this it seemed so everyone else seemed to be able to pass it off with a cynical grin that said well what did you really expect there s never been any more than this and never will be anymore than this nobody s out to save the world because nobody gives a damn about the world that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking get a job make some money work till you re sixty then move to florida and die daniel quinn ishmael at july 01 2017 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 24 2015 gospel of fear school bully for president when people are tired of condescending nuances and onslaught of cliches they become cynical dismissive and give the pulpit to the bully the bully returns the favor as he bares their visceral fear and goes about dumbing down the dialog all that remains is to decide how to lynch the victim we are all muslims now it was clearer the civilised world where laughter or leisure was not a crime against divinity was getting cosier and thereby more vulnerable in its selective politically convenient appraisal of islamism the political class could not discard platitudes in the aftermath of a terrorist attack whenever a politician invariably the leader of a victim state said terror has no religion or don t vilify muslims it was a disingenuous assumption and a convenient distraction no faith divided or terrorized or subjugated people as islam did in the world after the cold war a meaningful conversation on it was impossible because condescending liberals and meek politicians assumed that talking about islam was denigrating islam this cop out and the accompanying face off between islamophobia a stigma attached to anyone who dared to break the consensus and islamofascism a visible version of domination and dehumanization made the sanguineous god freer and the domain of fear wider prasanna rajan open magazine religion of war devout mohammedans assemble in four different ways 1 they assemble several times daily for prayer summoned by a voice from on high the small rhythmic groups formed on these occasions may be called prayer packs each movement is exactly prescribed and orientated in one direction towards mecca once a week at the friday prayer these packs grow to crowds 2 they assemble for the holy war against unbelievers 3 they assemble in mecca during the great pilgrimage 4 they assemble at the last judgement as in all religions invisible crowds are of great importance but in islam more strongly than the other world religions these are invisible double crowds standing in opposition to each other the bi partition of the crowd in islam is unconditional the faithful and the unbelieving are fated to be separate for ever and to fight each other the war of religion is a sacred duty and thus though in a less comprehensive form the double crowd of the last judgement is prefigured in every earthly battle when the days of peace are over the holy war comes into its own again mohammed says one of the greatest experts on islam is the prophet of fighting and of war what he first achieved in his arabian sphere he leaves as a testament for the future of his community the fight against the infidels the expansion not so much of the faith as of its sphere of power which is the sphere of power of allah what matters to the fighters for islam is not so much the conversion as the subjection of infidels the koran the book of the prophet inspired by god leaves no doubt of this when the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them arrest them besiege them and lie in ambush for them crowds and power elias canetti 1962 at december 24 2015 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 10 2015 judas gospel the emergency in india refers to a 21 month period in 1975 77 when prime minister indira gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the country most of gandhi s political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored several atrocities using the police force were reported from the time the emergency was one of the most controversial periods of independent india s history k r meera s judas gospel malayalam yudasinte suvisesham is a fiction exploring the period s aftermath through the eyes of victims and perpetrators of state brutality unleashed on rebels who were inspired by idealism and the romance of resistance the shock and awe of the violence have faded from public space and the memory of it evokes nothing more than jejune indifference the novel describes with a lot of heart how those bright and sensitive idealists were crushed under the boots of state machinery wherein the hunter prey the writer and the reader hurtle toward a shared experience when we read gospel of judas it unravels the heart breaking cries and nightmares of a generation the novel follows p u das aka croc yudas and prema das is a former naxalite rebel and prema is the daughter of a cop notorious for his proclivity for torture when at the end of torture das ribcage is broken he gives up names of his fellow comrades which included his lover and a dear friend having survived the ordeal but distraught at the loss of his pride as a revolutionary das rechristens himself to be crocodile yudas he spends the rest of his life in ignominy and shame for being a traitor to his cause and friends he becomes an expert at recovering corpses from deep waters prema was a five year old during the emergency her relationship to the torture camp and revolution were established by her binge drinking father s proud description of his colleagues brutalities at the camp and the he way submits own family to domestic terror prema recognized that das whose overgrown beard and hair resembled jesus christ carried the sin of the world for its redemption and she follows him das would leave her at each juncture every journey that she undertook revealed more details and insights about the uncertain and dangerous time prema meets the head of the camp beast parameswaran who became all alone in old age having witnessed the dissolution of his own family when in the end he saw himself as mere conduit of time s justice in the middle of meeting the beast cries out when prema has a little cut from the chipped coffee cup he considers himself as nothing more than an insignificant cog in the wheel of power or a tool in time s box if he were to join the force again he might do the same in his late sagacity he recognizes and acc...