“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” — Martin Heidegger

Books are my favourite kind of gulal, the only thing that brings colour to my otherwise mundane black and white world.

In 1939 Kamala Sohonie Became First Indian Woman to Get PhD In Science Discipline From IISC Bangalore Initially Her Application Was Turned Down by Then Director Prof. C V Raman Because She Was Woman She Protested and Did Satyagraha Outside Office of C.V Raman #WomensDay

“Read, read, read. Read everything― trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. apnews.com/article/juerge…

“Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell!” — Victor Hugo

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” ―Fernando Pessoa

"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man is a genius when he is dreaming" --- Akira Kurosawa Remembering the great Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明), on his 116th birthday!

Young Bhagat Singh at The Age of 13

“i long ago abandoned the idea of being understood.” — jorge luis borges

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘zany.’ ow.ly/ks3O50YvylI

Creative games in Japan helping elderly residents stay active and engaged

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, by Kohpale

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“You can’t teach character. If you haven’t got it by now, you’re not going to get it. I can teach you how to use a camera, I can teach you how to write a script, I can’t teach you to give a fuck.” — Anthony Bourdain

"Cuando tenía 14 años, robé un trozo de pan para comer, me metieron en el calabozo y me dieron pan gratis durante 6 meses. Esa es la justicia de la vida". "Los miserables", Víctor Hugo

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.” -Carl Jung

Happy birthday to one of my favourite artists! Happy 140th to Jamini Roy.

Anonyme. Saviez-vous que… un jour, pour expliquer les différences entre Tolstoï, Dostoïevski et Tchekhov, j’ai dit à mes élèves : imaginez les trois grands écrivains russes au bord de la mer. Tolstoï vous décrira la mer dans toute sa largeur, dans toute sa profondeur, dans