Entropy…

Both what you run from and what you yearn for are within you

Archive for September, 2008

Life & Thought Provoking Entropy | 30 Sep 2008

Free Mind

Pl care to read thoughtful & fascinating article by Indian Columnist Jay Dubhashi , who writes insightful column “Econology” in Value Research Magazine.

If you are in England any time, do go and visit Cambridge and in Cavendish Laboratory where the atom was split for the first time. The man who did it, was a farmer’s [...]

Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 27 Sep 2008

The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2:

Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete
interchange of our own
essence with world-space. You counterweight
in which I rhythmically happen.
Single wave-motion whose
gradual sea I am:
you, most inclusive of all our possible seas-
space has grown warm.
How many regions in space have already been
inside me. There are winds that seem like
my wandering son.
Do you recognize me, air, full of places I [...]

Art Entropy | 25 Sep 2008

The Million Word March

This is fascinating insight into World of English Lexicon, sharing & reproducing recent article published in Smithsonian Magazine

What defines a word? Lexicographers and other experts don’t always agree

It used to be that the expert source on what was or wasn’t a word was that school-day staple: the dictionary. American Heritage, Webster’s Third, the Oxford English: [...]

Economic Behaviour & Thought Provoking Entropy | 20 Sep 2008

Psychology & Economics

The recent Economic & financial market turmoil has prompted me to post this. It is relevant & enlightening as it deals with the irrationality of the human mind, especially related to our economic choices. In fact, in reality, we are anything but rational beings.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to give the Noble Prize [...]

Life & Poetry Entropy | 12 Sep 2008

Nothing Twice

Delightful Inventiveness, Prodigious Imagination..is the appropriate description of Wislawa Szymborska’s work. Her poems are probing and complete messages. In attenuated, sometimes even colloquial language, Szymborska raises original and unsettling questions about human nature, the precariousness and sense of human existence, about mankind’s place in the universe. Her poetry is never confessional or personal. She transforms [...]

Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 03 Sep 2008

Time’s Flow

Wish to reproduce & share translation of introspective Poem by Gujrati language poet Rajendra Shukla.. (Birth 1942- )

Time’s Flow
I was barred from even playing
with the shadow cast on the wall.
How many times Grandma had chided me in Childhood:
“Can’t play so much with the shadow, son,
you can go mad…”
But I had such a [...]