There are real humane situations,- awkward, impossible, real imbroglios - one can overcome by inventing a phrase and relocating into the comfort of it. So for a time at least one can decisively divest of the uneasy feelings which would otherwise cling as a proverbial limpet, as it were, to the recesses of one's being. Ironically, some such terms, which originally would not have signified anything real, after a time gathers legitimacy, a host of meanings congealing around this figment of unhealthy imagination,and the word, in it's travail through...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Black Skin, White Masks: An attempt towards reading Tayeb Salih's 'Season of Migration to The North'
"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me, an invincible summer." -Albert Camus"Wandering between two worlds, one dead,The other powerless to be bornWith nowhere yet to rest my head,Like these, on earth I wait forlorn." - Mathew Arnold."...that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turban'd TurkBeat a Venetian and traduc'd the state,I took by the throat the circumcised dog,And smote him, thus." - Othello, Act V, Scene ii§ The...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Critique of Gravity : Impediments to Laughter
The knowledge of a force which every object experience from every other object, just for the simple reason that the object is there, lingers as a source of deep distress. The force is there: inexorable, given, foreordained. It revealed something, a piece of information, which I would, had there been a choice, not have opted to know. It goes counter to my prerogative to dream, a dream I would have loved to cherish, that at some point of time, I might be able to fly. The fact that I have no information of a known incident of a human being flying,...
Monday, March 24, 2008
Reading Masnavi in Esfahan
That was a dream. To do anything in Esfahan is impossible. Esfahan is not Nasf Jahan anymore. The death, I gather, did not come about in a grand manner. Circumstances which led to the demise is not even worthy to be investigated by a private detective. Evoked in this context, word detective could engender a curiosity in the reader as to whether it was a normal death or a murder. Murder, a term which is generally considered synonymous with homicide,has...
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Villa of the Mysteries
I am chased by headings of possible write ups. At the most unexpected of moments, they rise before my eyes, take form, and present in all vividity. Then the almost terrible phase of hunting begins, the titles following me day in and day out, persistent,unyielding. Headings in all forms one can conjure up. For instance there is this "Symposium, Immortality, and Homosexuality: Foetal Ruminations". But when I begin to examine them closely, they tend...