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'Journal1': The Great Divide

The following is the first of a planned series of notes and personal commentaries on social-political matters relating to this country (and to the world as well); successive posts in this series will be tagged as ‘Journal1’, ‘Journal2’, and so on. The topics chosen may appear to be at random but they all relate to what has been referred to in the present post as the clash between ‘wokism’ and the ‘right wing’ view of life, where none of these two terms is used in a derogatory sense, though I myself have agreements and differences with either. Click here to read 'Jornal1'

Sandeshkhali: West Bengal Political Violence

  Is West Bengal turning into a rogue state? A commentary on the Sandeshkhali incident on 5 January, 2024. Click to read

Creativity: Avalanche in the Sand-pile

This book is a revised and enlarged version of an earlier essay ‘Understanding Creativity: Affect Decision and Inference’, self-published by me in December, 2021, and available at PhilArchive  . How the human mind engages in a creative act, involving a restructuring of the conceptual space. As the conceptual space is taken to a tipping point, a cascading process starts, analogous to an avalanche in a slowly growing sand-pile.  Click here to read the book