I’ve been meaning to write about Ayn Rand for quite sometime now…well, since the moment I finished ‘Atlas Shrugged’ with great relief, i.e. I’ve high respect for the author for having crystallized her thoughts with such crispness of dialogue and narrative; she also makes certain points that may well challenge the thinking of many but [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Ayn Rand
Posted in Reflections, tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Psychology, Selfishness, Vice, Virtue, Words on January 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Of 5D+ Realities
Posted in Reflections, tagged Djinns, Mental Illness, Possession, Schizophrenia, Therapeutic Community on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remember from the days I interned at the therapeutic community for schizophrenia and other schizotypal patients, one particular patient. He carried himself with an apparent aura of enigma, detached and rarely conversant. Over the days, we became something of passing acquaintances- I would leave him alone and pretend he wasn’t around when I sensed [...]
Matrimonial (s)COOP
Posted in Gene pool, Reflections, tagged Marriage, Marriage Brokers, Matrimony, Photo shoots, Society on January 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
At 24, I must now hear the matrimonial clock ticking away grimly or so according to my mother. She rues the day she decided to give me reprieve for two more years, 22 would’ve looked far more appealing on the summarized Bio-Data- Your life on a cold, white sheet of paper, no less, no more. [...]
The Case of the Faux Intellectual
Posted in Frivolity, Reflections, tagged Faux, Intellect, Intellectual, library, Muslim Scholar on January 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When people get the first glimpse of my library, I can always hear my internal groan in great, painful clarity. ‘Oh my! Look at this!’ and I can tell by the gleam in their eyes and sometimes ecstatic comments that follow, they think of me as some sort of a formidable scholar, no amount of correcting [...]
Bhutto and Archetypes
Posted in Reflections, tagged Archetypes, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto Family, Carl Jung, Gandhi Family, Politics on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bhutto episode calls for some serious pondering. I didn’t feel like going at it until I had my thoughts straight. The assassination itself being a shameful and cowardly act, it also draws our attention to some serious flaws in the thinking of the political populace-us.
Benazir Bhutto had remained an Iconic figure inspite of [...]
Cramming the Shelves
Posted in Reflections, tagged Ayn Rand, Books, Coffee, Don Quixote, Human Rights, Illiad on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I’m still on the subject of books, I thought I’ll subject the good ‘ol machinery to Ayn Rand’s works. Got meself a book by her yesterday. ‘Her’ is in italics only because I thought of Rand as a ‘He’ until recently, much to my mortification, correction came from unexpected quarters.
I also picked up [...]
Romantic Foibles
Posted in Frivolity on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been wasting away my time, shamefully. Dare, I admit it? Reading regency romances. There, I said it. It’s out in the open, you can laugh at me now and throw as many squishy pies as you want- I deserve it.
I’ve gathered during this limbo much wisdom- that virginal beauties of ethereal kind drive [...]
