TacitKnowledge

This blog is entitled 'TacitKnowledge', recalling the work of the great scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is planned as a platform for much that we perceive but don't always share, fearing that our views are too vague to be of value. Here I will take you to a tour of books and articles written by me, over the years and on various topics. One major area covered will be theoretical physics, while broader domains will also be explored -- touching upon philosophy, psychology, and the contemporary social-political scenario too. In most of these I will be clearly writing without regard to my competence and qualification because that is what this site is meant to be -- a platform for our tacitly held views.  You will find my CV here  if you feel like getting to know more about my background.    

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'

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

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