Nilanjana Sen.,PhD
@nilanjanasen29
Ethnographer: special interest in ethical self-making, social policy and contemporary India. Currently making sense of global Corporate Social Responsibility.
"Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon." Ikkyu (images: Harunobu Suzuki / Hasui Kawase)
'What you have by heart, the bastards cannot touch, they cannot take it from you ... What you don't know by heart, you really haven't loved deeply enough.' George Steiner on the importance of learning by heart. I've seen this countless times, and it never ceases to move me.
The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.” 2/2
Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2
I am sending you a flash photograph of myself. I haven’t in fact got a twisted face; it’s the flash that gives me that visionary look, and I have long ago abandoned high collars. The tie is a real showpiece; I bought it on a trip to Paris. Franz Kafka, 1912.
On Love and Purpose: “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the well-being of others. Love is the only force that makes existence worthwhile.”
Nietzsche, this one stays with you.
A tragedy struck #Himachal's Seraj valley 20 days ago. Here are people's voices on the compounding disaster with unprecedented losses, starkly visible yet unfathomable. Note to the MP: Rehabilitation is colossal challenge not a 'panchayat' matter. Take it. tinyurl.com/2re8bezy
Keep a green tree in your heart And perhaps the singing bird will come. -Rumi
Hemingway didn’t talk about pain. He bled quietly and called it writing.
'A Monastery in the Himalayas' by Nicholas Roerich, 1931.
Arun Sagar's compelling article on publications was a timely reminder that we can go certain years without publishing an academic piece. I know I have! Wrote a response to his very critical piece and thank @TheIndiaForum for giving it space. theindiaforum.in/education/agai…
For those interested, the video from the Bangalore discussion of Making India Work is now available via @bicblr youtube.com/watch?v=ahmP81…
📕🎙️ #BookLaunch The V.R. Krishna Iyer Chair at #NLSIU launched the book 'Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy' by Prof. @louisetillin, Professor of Politics & Former Director, @KingsIndiaInst, @KingsCollegeLon. The book launch @bicblr saw…
“In a life properly lived, you’re a river. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it; you can’t figure out a banal game plan applicable to all situations; you just have to go with the ‘beingness’ of life.” - Jim Harrison
My friend and a brilliant scholar from Nepal, @khetaarey 's latest journal article on the construction of masculinity among transnational military aspirants. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… abstract ⤵️