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nobility of suffering

Nothing is Easy. Everything isn’t Suffering.

Nothing is Easy. Everything isn't Suffering.

I have a bone to pick with marketing gurus. Which, let’s face it, is all of us at this moment in history. Every one of us with a platform to speak our minds is trying to sell something. We’ve been taught that this is the thing to do with an audience. Sell them things, whether […]

Posted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017 by Samir Bharadwaj in Life Lessons

Wishing Obscurity Upon the Solemn Juvenile

Wishing Obscurity Upon the Solemn Juvenile

It takes all types to make the world, but some types you just don’t like. Some types appear to not be as useful in the grander scheme, adding more to the chaos than helping build anything. I personally find the solemn juvenile to be quite the unsavoury type.

Posted on March 1, 2014February 14, 2015 by Samir Bharadwaj in Creative Ideas

Durian Dreams and Dust Baths

Durian Dreams and Dust Baths

The Durian is hard thorny fruit on the surface with a soft flesh inside. It is purported to taste divine and smell foul, and it gets its name from duri in Malay, which means thorns. A very conflicted fruit for sure. A dust bath is exactly what it sounds like. Birds often push dirt into […]

Posted on June 1, 2010January 28, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj in Creative Ideas

Writing Poetry Without Bloodletting

Writing Poetry Without Bloodletting

Nostalgia and grief seem to fuel the pensive poet’s pen, Without them the bards would not know where to begin, On their journeys through life and soul and deed, All springing from the one eternal human need, A yearning for meaning, the hope that it will come, The fear that it has slipped past in […]

Posted on October 21, 2009January 28, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj in Writing

Flight or Fight or Creativity

Flight or Fight or Creativity

The whole world is out to get you. All the signs are there. You never get a lucky break. People always treat you like dirt. And the few people who are nice? They’re after something, obviously. Everyone else is on a life-long personal vendetta to make your existence slightly more unpleasant: the people at the […]

Posted on May 8, 2009January 28, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj in Creative Ideas

Sexual Discrimination – The Ugly Reality

Sexual Discrimination - The Ugly Reality

Libraries and bookshops might be great places to meet people, but I fear sexual equality is in peril in these houses of intellect and tripe. I was at the biggest mall in the world yesterday, and in it is one of the largest bookshops I’ve had the pleasure of losing myself in, Kinokuniya. Yesterday was […]

Posted on December 11, 2008February 8, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj in Rambling

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