Gigयासा Project

A curious endeavor to understand the trajectory of Indian thought

Sep 27, 2016

Swaraj In Ideas

I was born in a deeply religious family in the bylanes of Mylapore. As I grew up to plumb my inner moorings, I witnessed the facade of harmony between my inner context — whose core was nourished by the cultural life of Mylapore- and the external context dictated by my “modern” schooling crumble.

Deep focus — Reflections on cinema by Satyajit Ray

In his passionate lecture at the 2013 Jefferson Lecture, entitled Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema, Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest director of our times, muses on the nature of movement:

On writing sentences

From the little I have written on the Web, I can relate to a writer’s travails. The excruciating pains of labour in constructing a sentence that stammers to sound right. The inconsolable pain at staring the blank white screen endlessly. Vikram Chandra, in his part non-fiction, part memoir…