Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Through ‘Polyphonic Eating’ DJ Yu Su Wants You to Listen Closer, Taste More, and Feel Deeper
Joel Hartsomethingcurated.com
RITUAL Our problem isn’t just that we are in the habit of shirking important ideas. We are also prone to forget them immediately even if we have in theory given them our assent. For this, humanity invented ritual. Ritual can be defined as the structured repetition of important concepts, made resonant through the help of formal pageantry and
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
My soul is a hidden orchestra,” the first entry reads. “I do not know what instruments, what violins and harps, drums and tambours sound and clash inside me. I know myself only as a symphony.”
In any case, I stopped believing that "theo-ry" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn't the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed?
- Elif Batuman,
The Possessed
Since in India, more than in any other part of the world, food has been invested with meaning as a marker of identity. The corollary of “You are what you eat” is “You eat what you are”
Buddhists, Jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and those adhering to other religions have their own food prescriptions and proscriptions. Feasts to celebrate festivals and
... See morePurva-Paksha refers to the thoughts of predecessors. There’s a prejudice where all Indian Philosophers, anything worth saying has already been said done in Vedas. Series of thinkers in the past, conflict, their views form a ladder. Truth can be seen by climbing the ladder (cute metaphor)
cumulative process (fu rand)
‘Intellectual Tradition is a
... See more“The views of the preceding sages have not been polluted, but only refined”
Critique doesn't render previous inquiry useless. Those previous views allow us to ascend the ladder and further the inquiry. It’s not something to be discarded.
The person those entries were about hasn’t crossed my mind in months. But, at the moment, it was potent. It was real to me. Now? I couldn’t even tell you what the color of their eyes were. Isn't that just the most 20-something, melodramatic moment of intensity? Where it feels like both nothing and everything matters? I live, live, live for that.
Harry Lada • Someone Break My Heart PLEASE!!!!!!!
Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . .... See more