Suyash Saxena Does the act of buying something of a stipulated market price and gifting it to someone chosen by random lots qualify as genuine gift-giving? How intrinsic is the element of cost to the idea of gift-giving?
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How a quintessential corner for most is seed to the magnum opus of another! (An interesting thread below)

My article today is a philosophical dissection of the economics of gift-giving

Philosophy and Economics of Gift-Giving | Economic and Political Weekly
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#Nepotism is bad, doubtless. Is the quest for #merit & #merit ocracy killing social compassion? Read this interesting essay by Suyash Saxena in Madras Courier

Nepotism Is Bad; How Meritorious Is Meritocracy? | Madras Courier madrascourier.com/opinion/nepoti…

Amidst the debate over Nepotism, a philosophical take on Meritocracy

My article:
#Nepotism is Bad; how Meritorious is Meritocracy?
#philosophy

Seldom I send my poems for publication. This recent publication somewhat reminded me Eliot. Eliot once wrote a sentimental poem for his wife and when it happened to get published, he dreamily mumbled: 'Those were my private emotions expressed publicly.'

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Today’s poem by Suyash Saxena is poignant and moving. #poetry #POEMS #poem #poetry lovers madrascourier.com/art-and-poetry…

My recent article:

A philosophical take on lonesomeness during the pandemic

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Epistle is envisioned as a two-way platform for interactions between senior and junior members of the IRS fraternity as well as a genial repository of delicate sentiments and collective nostalgia of all the alumni, alumnae of NADT.

Encouraging to see our efforts bearing fruits.

My last week's column in EPW: The Phenomenology of #nostalgia

Memories are our revenge against the onslaught of time and our own forgetfulness. But what constitutes a memory & what forms a nostalgia, are philosophical questions.

MY RECENT ARTICLE:
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My Guide: French artist Jean-Baptiste Regnault

#memories

A lazy Sunday afternoon... With nothing much to write or edit for publication today, I have resorted to something much easier and lazier -- reading... Gifts of Sunday indolence!

The title of the book seems like a transient epiphany:
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell..

As #NationalSportsDay2020 trends, some old memories tumble forth
One of the fondest memories is my final long-jump at ASISC Uttar Pradesh State Athletic Meet,Prayagraj,2009 when the whole stadium had come out to cheer & I won Individual Championship of State. So humbled I’d felt!

Too tired to burn
too vain to set,
A pensive sun
hung on sky's edge, cajoling
yet mischievously singeing the frayed edges of clouds
As I watch
an undeserved sunset bestowed on a hopelessly pragmatic world
For amidst sunsets, as homing pigeons
fond memories come fluttering back