Pankaj Parashar

Professor & Author | Hindi Literature, Literary Criticism, Language, Culture & World Literature | Scholar of Indian Classical Music

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I write, teach and think about literature, language, culture and criticism. My interests include Hindi literature, world literature and Indian classical music, with a focus on the ideas and traditions that shape our intellectual and cultural life.

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@not_dying घर रहेंगे, हमीं उनमें रह न पाएँगे
समय होगा, हम अचानक बीत जाएँगे

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@Iam_KiranK1 दिल ही तो है न संग-ओ-ख़िश्त, दर्द से भर न आए क्यों
रोएँगे हम हज़ार बार, कोई हमें सताए क्यों

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@Lekhaaaahhhhh Welcome to Delhi! So lovely to have you here.

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Some people leave our lives without ever betraying us. Perhaps that is the saddest kind of goodbye — when love remains, memories remain, but the hearts no longer speak the same language. “He was my companion, yet we were never truly in tune.” Some songs don't just touch the heart. They quietly break it. ❤️
https://t.co/ywmNRoWrdW

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@komalworks1225 Office just got a little more festive! ✨🌸

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@AakritiDubey21 अदभुत

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In an age of constant connection, a peculiar form of loveless love has taken root—affection performed rather than felt, closeness without commitment, warmth without staying power. We move through days full of words and gestures, yet remain starved of the one thing that once gave them weight. Such love keeps the surface intact while hollowing out the centre, leaving lives strangely unanchored. Meaning, it seems, still waits where genuine affection is allowed to stay.
#MeaningOfLife #Love #LovelessLove #ModernLife #HumanConnection #Reflection #Authenticity #Heart #Wisdom

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@HarikaSneni Sounds so peaceful. Hope the morning felt just as calm. ☀️

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@HarikaSneni This turned out really well. The backwaters scene looks so calm and detailed. Glad you finished it after all that time.

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People today have increasingly lost the patience to listen, the tolerance to disagree, and the willingness to engage—in conversations, professional relationships and even in thought. Yet ego, overthinking and the arrogance of ignoring others have grown enormously.

We are quick to judge, slow to understand, and increasingly unwilling to communicate. Much of today's personal, social and professional discord stems from this very failure of human engagement. A little less ego and a little more patience could make a world of difference.
#Communication #Patience #Empathy #HumanRelationships #ContemporarySociety

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@AakritiDubey21 किस विधा की किताब पसंद आएगी?

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@Aasthabajaj156 उसका हाथ
अपने हाथ में लेते हुए मैंने सोचा
दुनिया को
हाथ की तरह गर्म और सुंदर होना चाहिए

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@HarikaSneni This is so wholesome. Orange skies really do feel like therapy — glad you got to share one with him. 🐶

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@05Tejaswini इस फूल का संस्कृत नाम पता है?

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People today have increasingly lost the patience to listen, the tolerance to disagree, and the willingness to engage—in conversations, professional relationships and even in thought. Yet ego, overthinking and the arrogance of ignoring others have grown enormously.

We are quick to judge, slow to understand, and increasingly unwilling to communicate. Much of today's personal, social and professional discord stems from this very failure of human engagement. A little less ego and a little more patience could make a world of difference.
#Communication #Patience #Empathy #HumanRelationships #ContemporarySociety

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@HarikaSneni This is such a thoughtful way of looking at it. The trust patients place in you is truly special. Hope your Monday still had some gentle moments in between. ☘️

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What does it mean to live a meaningful life? In The Meaning of Life, Terry Eagleton approaches this deceptively simple question with an extraordinary combination of philosophical rigour, literary sensitivity and intellectual wit.

Engaging critically with an expansive tradition of thought—from Aristotle and Augustine to Marx, Schopenhauer, Sartre and Beckett—Eagleton interrogates the assumptions underlying our search for life's ultimate purpose. His most compelling intervention lies in refusing to treat meaning as some abstract metaphysical answer waiting to be discovered. Instead, he locates it in the ethical quality of human existence: in relationships, reciprocity, solidarity, love and the possibilities of collective flourishing.

What makes this book particularly significant is its resistance to both facile optimism and fashionable nihilism. Eagleton reminds us that meaning is not something external to life, nor is it a private possession to be accumulated through individual achievement. It emerges through the very manner in which we inhabit the world and relate to one another. A wonderfully lucid, intellectually provocative and humane work. A small book in size, but remarkably expansive in its philosophical implications. Some books answer questions; the finest ones teach us how to ask them better.

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@HarikaSneni @Coffeehudigi Two souls at ease under the open sky, sharing a quiet, sunlit joy.

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In Silence Forlorn, Aarathi Bellary transforms ordinary moments—a fading memory, mountain stillness, the pause between words—into luminous meditations on love, loss and the softening of grief. Her spare yet exacting language opens a contemplative space where silence itself becomes resilience. With a physician’s discerning empathy, she renders suffering and recovery with rare delicacy, turning clinical insight into poetry of profound sensitivity.