Edmund Burke

In this article, I illuminate upon the roots of of Indian Nationalism via the review of the book ‘Origins of Nationality in South Asia’ by CA Bayly. My first for Swarajya swarajyamag.com/books/before-n…

@Yaayaavara Heheh nah😭

@devoffice Mujhe laga aap us din ki baat kr rhe jb hum sb sath me gaye the.

उस दिन हम दोनों हुमायूँ के मक़बरे गए थे। वहाँ वह नंगे पाँव घास पर चली थी। 'मुझे नंगे पाँव घास पर चलना अच्छा लगता है'- उसने कहा था। मैंने उसकी चप्पलें हाथ में पकड़ रखी थीं। उसने मना किया था। 'इट इज नॉट डन,' उसने अंग्रेजी में कहा था। यह उसका प्रिय वाक्य है।जब कभी मैं उसे धीरे-से अपने पास खींचने लगता हूँ, तो वह अपने को बहुत हल्के से अलग कर देती है और कहती है-' इट इज नॉट डन।' - निर्मल वर्मा

कुछ चीजें हैं, जो हमेशा साथ रहती हैं, उन्हें याद रखना नहीं होता। कुछ चीजें हैं, जो खो जाती हैं, खो जाने में ही उनका अर्थ है, उन्हें भुलाना नहीं होता। - निर्मल वर्मा

@Wisebutohno True but Nirmal verma journey was enriched by your suggestions :-)

फुटपाथ पर पत्तों का शोर है। यह शोर मैंने पिछली रात को भी सुना था। पिछली रात हमारे शहर में तेज हवा चली थी। आज सुबह जब मैं घर की सीढ़ियों से नीचे उतरा था, तो मैंने इन पत्तों को देखा था। कल रात ये पत्ते फुटपाथ से उड़कर सीढ़ियों पर आ ठहरे होंगे। मुझे यह सोचना अच्छा लगता है कि हम दोनों एक ही शहर में रहते हैं, एक ही शहर के पत्ते अलग-अलग घरों की सीढ़ियों पर बिखर जाते हैं और जब हवा चलती है, तो उनका शोर उसके और मेरे घर के दरवाज़ों को एक संग खटखटाता है। - निर्मल वर्मा

@Wisebutohno वेन वुड इट बी?

@fuchikar Added to tbr.

The greatest writer India has produced post independence. A consummate stylist and a towering intellect. Lived long inside the Iron Curtain. Far, far ahead of his time. A giant among pygmies. Tip: His travel writing is obscenely underrated.

@ntikvrt How beautiful he writes. This is the book where I felt an irresistible urge to read everything by Nirmal Verma.

Ve Din - Nirmal Verma 👌👌 'तुम उस बात से आतंकित नहीं हो सकते जो सच है, लेकिन जो अभी तुम्हारे लिए सच नहीं बनी।'

@jarinwallah Yes

@devoffice Is this rc majumdar history book ?

Nothing is more remarkable in the history.. than the gradual conversion of Nehru, step by step and stage by stage, to the views and practices of Gandhi. One might well ponder how and why a dynamic personality like Jawaharlal Nehru made an abject surrender to Gandhi — about whom he himself said that “ideologically he was sometimes amazingly backward,” and again, ‘much that he says seems to fit in with a medieval Christian saint and not at all with modern psychological experience and method’. - RC Mazumdar

“Romantic heartbreak has an elaborate infrastructure. There are films for it. Songs for it. Poetry, rituals, sympathy, advice columns, entire industries dedicated to helping people metabolise romantic loss. Friendship grief, however, remains oddly invisible. Nobody teaches you how painful it feels to slowly lose access to someone who once knew your inner life intimately. Someone who understood the silences before your sentences. Someone who could identify your mood from the way you said ‘okay’. Someone who knew everything about your crushes and petty insecurities.” timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-ir…

I just finished reading this article by @PrateekUvacha. From the familiar story of Dhurandhar, he takes the reader on his tour de force through his masterful analysis of the Punjabi psyche as a whole, and how it has been shaped by various historical events and how its literary traditions reflect it. I learnt a lot about Punjab and could also better appreciate the film Dhurandhar after reading this. In a landscape cluttered with surface-level film reviews, Prateek Rajput’s “Dhurandhar & The Paradox That Is Punjab” exceeds all expectations by transcending cinema to decode Punjab itself : not as mere geography, but as a living temperament. It seamlessly weaves cinema, culture, history, literature, and psychology. The article draws effortless parallels between the film’s characters and real archetypes, while anchoring everything in the centuries-old Punjabi birha tradition. He contrasts this profound literary soul with today’s “guns and bling” pop culture, revealing a fracture but without getting too preachy. One of those writings that turns analysis into elegy of what feels lost in the Punjabi psyche and makes a blockbuster feel like inherited memory. This piece doesn’t just appreciate Dhurandhar. It illuminates Punjab’s paradox with depth and honesty. Must read. Link : open.substack.com/pub/prateekraj…

We're not winning this 😔

@ntikvrt Read in hindi, buy from Meesho if you can't have it at Daryaganj.

A Window Lived in the Wall (Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi) - Vinod Kumar Shukla Masterpiece 🥰 'A person disappearing from view can only be followed by someone disappearing too.'

@Pranjal90985707 The first point of the list is for young sensitive men like us😔

Things you should know before turning 23. •Plato never experienced Platonic Love. •George Orwell was born in Bihar. •Tulsidas and Shakespeare coexhed. •Bombay Duck isn't a duck. •Charlie Munger was from Munger. •Kanye West is from West Bengal. •Dante was from Aligarh.

@Wisebutohno :-(

How easily these sexist accounts spread misinformation with hardly a murmur, man..