Puja Nandi
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Puja Nandi
Those who wounded us were not superior, impressive beings who knew our special weaknesses and justly targeted them. They were themselves highly frantic, damaged creatures trying their best to cope with the litany of private sorrows to which every life condemns us.
Alain de Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education
All forms of trauma hinder a child’s ability to realize or acquire “essential arts of personhood.” Philosopher Annette Baier introduces this expression to highlight certain skills and abilities that are basic to human life, being human, and being treated as a human.
Childhood Trauma Is a Moral Emergency
At one level, a sense of inherent loyalty means that we would very much like to be able to let bygones be bygones. Especially as we watch our parents diminish in strength and lose status in the world, it seems unfair to them to keep directing an impotent rage towards them and to behave in ways that were anchored in quite different power dynamics... See more
Just a moment...
The academic Shoshana Zuboff calls this “surveillance capitalism”: tech companies get us hooked through addictive design and extract huge amounts of our personal data in order to sell us hyper-targeted ads. The result is a society characterised by atomisation, alienation and the erosion of our attention spans.
Everything the right - and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act | George Billinge
A Tale of Two Malhars - Rajan Parrikar Music Archive
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To celebrate the arrival of the rainy season, I'm going to switch to posting about monsoon ragas in Carnatic and Hindustani music in our Raga of the Week threads. Obviously, I had to start with Raga Megh Malhar (Megh literally means cloud). The Malhar group of ragas are mostly associated with rain; in fact, the legend goes that Tansen's voice was... See more
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Raga Gaud Malhar
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explanation of Raga Malhar
This Is For by Bella Cox
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“The truth is, that you cannot create anything of value without both self doubt and self belief”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Full speech is on YouTube:
“Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses Harvard’s Class of 2018” at Harvard... See more
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