Mayank Chhaya Daily: Of dreams and multiverse
2022年8月28日 · Lately, I dream a lot and in a way that dreams spill into my waking hours. More often than not my dreams have produced poetry and also some paintings. Early this morning though it triggered a theory about dreaming and...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: If I were Xi Jinping...
2021年9月16日 · If I were China’s President Xi Jinping, I would be mighty pleased at one level that five countries, one of them still a superpower, one a has-been super power, one a wannabe superpower, one which does not want to be a superpower even while wanting to be and one never-gonnabe-superpower, have to join hands to contain my country’s perceived global threat.
Mayank Chhaya Daily: December 2021 - southasia.typepad.com
2021年12月4日 · Earthrise--Mayank Chhaya. Perhaps it is my name, which in Sanskrit means Moon, that I feel an inordinate pull towards Earth’s singular groupie.
Musings over Sir Roger Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology and Hindu ...
2020年10月9日 · The idea that the universe is in a perpetual process of destruction, regeneration and maintenance and then destruction again is something Indians understand intuitively. For as long as I remember that idea has been around in my life as has...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: On course to wrapping up four books in 2021
I have just begun again going through four incomplete manuscripts of mine which were in various stages of progress when I stopped writing a couple of years ago. Three are novels—a political thriller, a historical novel and an imaginary conversation...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: Sloshing about in undifferentiated voidness
2021年8月3日 · As someone who has had to acquire, cultivate, feign most of the human emotions, the one that comes most easily to me is unbridled joy. It takes very little, sometime nothing at all, to make me joyous. Joy, like everything...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: The effing tyranny of passwords
2021年7月14日 · Oh, the effing tyranny of passwords! Two things bother the hell out of me about the tech era—a garroting jumble of cables around devices and a suffocating number of passwords. I am now at a stage where I have a...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: Back to writing as an old hack
2021年2月16日 · I have just begun doing extensive background reading of reports and stories from around the world since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic over a year ago as part of my research for a chapter I am writing for prospectively upcoming book.
Mayank Chhaya Daily: September 5, 2021
2021年9月5日 · One of the unrivaled joys of my morning walk these days, which starts around 5.50 a.m. after putting in about two hours of work, is the subtle yet distinct change of the sunlight.
Mayank Chhaya Daily: My Socratic moment
Before I tell you about my Socratic moment at the mall, let me tell you about a story about the Greek philosopher Socrates (469–399 B.C.E.). This story could well be apocryphal but then after the passage of a certain period everything seems apocryphal. Socrates was once taken by one of his disciples/students to an Athenian version of a mall.