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Listening to others. Taking them seriously. Fashioning the world.


In Borges
a blind writer meets a blind reader...
Shashwat


Where is “the Way”? The Mencian Discourse as Ritual Site for Imaginative Reconstitution of Social Categories
How did we come to imagine the world in the ways that we do? How did we begin to use the categories we use? How did these concepts and categories acquire “meaning” so that using them we can make “sense”?
Shashwat


Jian Guo Holiday Flower Market (建國假日花市): Where Fuming Desires Metamorphose into Fragrance
Urban apartments are modular prisons where we incarcerate ourselves for most of our lives. In search of livelihood, a roof over our heads, a sense of security and a bed to fall asleep on, there is much that a city-zen gives up. When our homes lack a window into the world, a balcony that sits somewhere on the edges of inside and outside, and the glimpses of trees whose branches dapple with light and sway in trance with the dance of the breeze, our sense of incarceration produc
Shashwat
Essays


fishing nets
a verse in visuals
Shashwat


in the desert
inhabit there with calm solitude
and listen . . .
Shashwat


the missing ear piece
to grow so light of possessions,
quiet as to know a whisper
Shashwat
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