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Continue reading →: Adoor Gopalakrishnan: The film philosopher of IndiaMerleau-Ponty, the famous French philosopher, called Paul Cezanne a philosopher. Cezanne was never a trained philosopher but was a painter. Merleau-Ponty said that Cezanne was doing with colors what the philosopher was doing with concepts. I think that Adoor is a philosopher in this sense. He is doing with images…
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Continue reading →: Red Desert: Antonioni on Meaning CrisisRed Desert is a 1964 Italian film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. This film is well-known for its take on the issue of mental health in the age of industrialization and rapid development. In short, it tells the melancholic story of Guiliana who is the wife of an engineer in an…
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Continue reading →: John Vattanky: An Underrated Indian PhilosopherJohn Vattanky was an Indian Jesuit, educated at Oxford and Vienna and also trained in the rigorous ways of traditional Indian learning. His major interest was in Classical Indian Philosophy, especially Nyaya Logic. Some of his major works are Gangesa’s Philosophy of God and Nyaya Philosophy of Language. He was…
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Continue reading →: Gavi: An eco tourist destination in KeralaGavi became famous with a Malayalam film titled ‘Ordinary’. It tells the story of a KSRTC bus that connects Gavi to the district capital, Pathanamthitta, a town in the south Kerala. I was really moved by the breathtaking beauty of the landscape of Gavi from the visuals of the film.…
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Continue reading →: Was Socrates a Sophist?Socrates and Sophists were wandering teachers in Ancient Greece. The aspiring young men of Athens flocked around them. Both of them taught the young people different forms of art and argumentation. It is possible that we get confused between Socrates and Sophists. What were the essential difference between Sophists and…
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Continue reading →: Barot ValleyI got an unexpected opportunity to visit Barot valley. As I was busy with academic commitments I had no much time to do a major research on the landscape, culture and the features of the landscape before embarking. Indeed, it was my first visit to Himachal Pradesh. We took a night…
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Continue reading →: Searle’s Philosophy of MetaphorI came across John Searle during my research at the Centre for Philosophy, JNU. I was exploring the possibility of a research on the Conceptual Metaphor theory of Lakoff and Johnson. My supervisor advised me to go back to metaphor itself. As I was going through the philosophical literature on…
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