SamSa

I doubt. Therefore I may be.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

It is easier to move to a state of health from being undernourished than from being obese. Our world with excess information, hyper-awareness, and extreme of everything has been turned irreversibly unhealthy. Starvation can start a revolution, but not over-consumption.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Success comes at a cost. Failure comes with a lesson.

If no price is paid, the success achieved will be short-lived and will not result in any growth. If the lesson is not learned, failure will repeat itself till progress is made.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

The world is fed and nourished while I starve for you.

~ Sayat Nova

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

@nolanentreeo @anandverite @TheSouthfirst Thanks for showing interest in this. I am the author. Please DM me. :)

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

@anandverite Thanks, Anand for sharing this. :)

[Swaroop Mami @TnagarTornado]

In the next episode of our @arrahman podcast, @sharanidli and I have poet, translator, screenwriter and friend, @crazymindseye to discuss the music of Rangeela and Bombay!

Link to whole episode: https://t.co/W2PtAamfiL

Here Sam talks about Rahman making it big outside TN:

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

The discourse around 'appropriation' shifted the gunpoint from the enemy to the ally. Battle b/w the oppressor & oppressed shifted to battle b/w the oppressed & their comrade of concern. This broke the solidarity of those who could spot the enemy. The enemy had the last laugh.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Great art's worldview is always (at least) one step ahead of the common sense of the times, and even the popular counterpoints of the time's common sense.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Language is not a substitute for action.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Language is a tool, not currency!

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

What is the conspiracy behind creating an atmosphere where artists have been pressurized to engage more with social sciences than with society?- All in the name of social commitment & artistic responsibility!! This has only derailed art, deflated art, & impoverished the society.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Finding people who echo the same/ similar thoughts is not finding a community! To believe so demands reducing oneself and others as human beings to mere views expressed and opinions held. That is a narrow and shallow vision of community and also of humans.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Looking at oneself uncritically in the name of self-love and looking at everything out there unsympathetically in the name of uprightness-- these two are pulling human society, human life, and humanity in opposite directions, and tearing them apart.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

The lies people tell themselves and convince themselves as the truth, their truth- this being made easier through social media, and it forming inauthentic selves and leading to inauthentic living is one of the real tragedies of our times.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Probably Poonam Pandey believes that she did it all for a larger cause. To call it a PR stunt would fall short of grasping the complexity of our times. The tragedy is in the phenomenon of people believing their performance, their projection to be their reality, their actuality.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Selfishness is a silent social pandemic.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Having the agency to make choices is not an empowering thing by itself if there is no wisdom to make the right choices, or the humility to reflect on the choices made or/ and not made.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

Instead of processing experiences, we are all theorizing experiences. As a result, we are becoming more and more expressive and impressive in our social lives, but sadly, in our inner lives are becoming invisibly self-destructive.

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

bekhabar nahi beparwaah tey sab kay sab
paas tey magar laapataa tey sab kay sab.

~ 'Sahil'

[SamSa @crazymindseye]

@SnehaAnnavarapu 3- The proof is always in the action. So, don't believe what people say. Trust their (in)action.