Shubham

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Of freedom and solitude
"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom" Quoted Schopenhauer. In fact, does freedom exist without solitude, I wonder! Even literally, being with somebody and freedom must be antonyms. Tough choice then, eh, between not being alone and being free? PS: This is a picture of Devansh, climb...
Posted on 21 January 2011 | 12:32 am
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Of laughter and forgetting
"We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles" Said Milan Kundera in his classic 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'. Do I laugh a weightless laugh? Or loaded with a hundred memories, a...
Posted on 20 January 2011 | 1:44 am
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Of animals and animosity
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid" Thus spaketh George Bernard Shaw, and I can't agree less. Why then, does the word animosity stand for 'a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action', I wonder! The word, with i...
Posted on 19 January 2011 | 1:09 am
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