My Too (Many) Cents

 Feldenkrais. Where there is effort there is no yoga.  Efficiency. Crashing waves. A slight insecurity over the truths i've accessed in the past. can truths really be forgotten? where am I now? in music. my journey with music began years ago when i accepted those bols into my life.  a musicians practice is a beginners practice to learn everyday from that which lies before you to hear the truth and only the truth in all your soundsss. to have the resilience, providence and agency to push past plateaus push past your own path the path is the style.  let your intelligence bloom whatever that keeps you away from this moment is a lie. You have already been here. You have already lived this. In your head you have gone away to a more subtle place where truth prevails. a quiet, quiet room. where ocassionally the strings play and the tune of the hard hit on a tabla rings. In that quiet, quiet place there is only love. A heat and intensity to take care of this fleshy mecha sui...

I took up again today my project of working through Hegel's Phenomenology that I started almost 4 years ago and my last engagement with was nearly 2 years ago: https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/06/hegel-everyday-6.html It's a pretty amazing book and difficult too but here is the passage I worked through today :> preface #15 15.  (19/5/26) The old world or a slower movement towards truth that is insistent on verifying is silenced because more “spectacular” ontologies are able to have epistemics for “exceptional, strange, curious things” e.g. consider Karma kanda as an explanation for cancer - in general claiming causation and correlation equivalence without counterfactual experiments backing it up is technically not wrong because it is just hypothesis generation.  This makes it feel like they have understood everything derived from the general principle within their epistemic system, but it is not necessarily the case. Every subdiscipline that the idea needs to be appli...

“साहित्य समाज का दर्पण है” - Munshi Premchand In this term paper, we conceptualize caste as a specific particularity of a drive to stratification. We locate this general urge as an outcome of a phenomenological orientation against ‘the real’ and map the specific manifestation to ways in which caste is performed and constituted. Within this field, we consider the specific experiences of producing caste. We focus on three parts of this experience, namely hate, apathy and self-monitoring which we then understand through an interpretive and stylistic analysis of the works Ijjat by Narayan Gangopadhyay , Kafan by Premchand and Nayi Reet by Ajay Navaria.  Stratification In this section we try to understand a psychological movement that can be seen as a contributor and also an abstraction to caste - stratification and the forming of hierarchies.  While many psychologists have debated over essentialist claims such as whether dominance hierarchies are an essential offshoot of human bio...

(done as part of literature and the ethics of telling a story term paper 2) Introduction "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." — Alexis Carrel The word ethics derives from the ancient Greek word ἦθος (êthos) which originally meant something close to "character", "custom" or "habit". In this term paper we first show how ethics is a continuous process, a dialogue between interacting individuals and communities. Utilising this understanding, we critically analyse the movie Ek Ruka Hua Faisla and Atin Bandyopadhyay's Kafir as media pieces that exhibit this "practice" of ethics in varying circumstances, viz. the community and justice for Ek Ruka Hua Faisla , and the individual and religion for Kafir . This paper is organized to shape this idea of ethics and trace its genealogy in the first section, and then analyse some specific aspects of the given works and how they interact with t...