Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Purva-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.
History is not inert but contains within it a story that implicates or justifies political order... A political order is premised not just on who can vote but on what they can vote for, which is to say on what can be imagined. And our political imagination is rooted in our history, our culture, and our myths.... See more
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Politics is the art of the
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
Do you have a writing routine?
I meditate first thing in the morning, then work out. I do much of my reading at the gym – something about the kinetic energy being discharged leaves my mind more single of focus. And then I write, standing, for as long as the writing feels alive. By mid-afternoon, my mind begins to slip out of the poetic dimension,... See more
I meditate first thing in the morning, then work out. I do much of my reading at the gym – something about the kinetic energy being discharged leaves my mind more single of focus. And then I write, standing, for as long as the writing feels alive. By mid-afternoon, my mind begins to slip out of the poetic dimension,... See more
Maria Popova • Orion Magazine | Nature, Culture & Place
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
I wanted to live at the edge of the imperative, in the tender fury of the reckless moment, for in this brief and pointillist life, bright-dark and electric, I could do nothing else.
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The human spirit has a primal allegiance to wildness, to really live, to snatch the fruit and suck it, to spill the juice. We may think we are domesticated but we are... See more
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The human spirit has a primal allegiance to wildness, to really live, to snatch the fruit and suck it, to spill the juice. We may think we are domesticated but we are... See more
The Four Rules of Hosting - Interintellect
interintellect.com
Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions — a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most authentic self. Wendell Berry knew... See more
Maria Popova • Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself
Dialogues of the dead differ from symposia of the living not only because people of different eras and cultures converse, but also because, as shades living posthumously, they no longer consider the life circumstances in which they speak. What they say can no longer benefit or harm them.