Is it okay to mourn before someone’s death? What if that someone is a stranger? But can writers ever be a stranger to a reader?
Tag: Existentialism
Diktats for Dandelions
'How do you make art that makes broken look beautiful?'
Stop Dissing Pessimism — It’s Part of Being Human
Pessimism, as explored by the philosopher Schopenhauer, offers tools to come to terms with the idea that refusing to relentlessly pursue happiness is perhaps the most reasonable attitude.
Capitalism and Death
Our passive submersion in the future means that we keep avoiding the question of death in the present.
Review: ‘Flee’ Is a Vivid Documentation of Existence on the Run
The animated documentary about a gay Afghan refugee by Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen offers a penetrating insight into the psyche of the migrant trauma.
Dispatch From Kashmir: A Letter to My Newborn Daughter
'Life here is hung in uncertainty between two extremes. I don’t exactly know where I belong and whether what I have chosen is right or wrong.'
Sambar, the Humble Vegetable Stew
A poem on the relation between the soupy dish and man's constant dance with disaster.
Paradoxe
'To think, one must be alive. To be alive, one must think.'
Halfway House
In this poem, the author navigates his grief after an accident left him paralysed.