philosophy
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A Short Story: The day I went for a walk with Montaigne in a French village
It was around two years ago; I am sorry to confess I don’t remember the exact date (sometime in mid-July), when I, along with my mentor Michel De Montaigne, went for a contemplative walk in a small village some ten kilometres outside Bergerac. The village, which could be said to be more of a hamlet Continue reading
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Read Thoreau’s Walden before it is too late
While the title of this essay may come across as rather dystopic, I feel I can express it with no less urgency nor importance that now, as we are heading into the second quarter of the 21st century, Thoreau’s Walden seems more important than ever. If you are yet to read Walden; this fantastic, beautiful, Continue reading
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Reflections on Goethe’s: Faust part 1 and Ibsen’s: Peer Gynt & A Doll’s House
The essays on this blog has, thus far, been singularly analytical in their approach as far as the works dissected, from Shakespeare to Dickinson, from Rabelais to Whitman, from Nabokov to Montaigne. However, as many of these essays takes much time and effort, I have had in mind for some time about posting (in between Continue reading
Paradiso 