New✨ Samuel Moyn 🔭's Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times Yale University Press London📚.

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'Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.'

--Leibniz, Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.

Walter reduced to the UPSC kunji aesthetic.

I got to see the sun rise like a Monet canvas at Palampur the past few days. For those that haven't seen such a sight, Monet would come close.

A pair of pigeons rested through the night in one of the plant pots in my balcony. I now feel like a zamindar. Capitalocene = Balcanocene. Shubho nobo borsho. youtube.com/watch?v=YhHUPs…

On Fredric Jameson's Fables of Aggression: Jameson at 90

Fredric Jameson was born 90 years ago today. To mark the occasion, Ian Buchanan explores Jameson's inimitable 'immunity to boredom' through his 1979 book, Fables of Aggression. versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

On Patrol, US Marines watch a Lebanese student pass by their Patrol, East Beirut, Lebanon 1983.

শুভ নববর্ষ! হাসতে থাকো! ✨😊💛

Also, why is the English word for अंतरिक्ष so utterly unimaginative and imprecise? अंतरिक्ष is so poetic, so specific ... and we are just supposed to call it space in English? What the hell?

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Poet Nizar Qabbani High School , Damascus Syria

Josef Koudelka. Romania, 1968.

For those who missed the event at The Hearth Within on 12 April, here is a video of the event, with Atreyee Majumder, Mahua Sen, Sreetanwi Chakraborty, and Preetinisha Barmanprodhani, moderated by Basudhara Roy Chatterjee.

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She is fresh air
mad river
a lonely boatman’s song
a common woman sitting on a staircase
draped in the aura of rangoli. - Moumita Alam
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Study in light.

“History decays into images, not into stories.”

— Walter Benjamin (The Arcades Project, tr. Eiland et al.)

Pablo Picasso, The Roofs of Barcelona in the Moonlight

Just this.