Determined imposition of a rationality framework on reality with or without consciously identifying and understanding its defining assumptions is a nice pastime. That it does nothing to alter the state of reality is quite reassuring, while simultaneously discomforting. But wait... does knowledge of reality impinge on the nature of reality? What is reality? Why this fuss to understand it? Let it be.

Ulagathinoram nindru athanaiyum paathirupom,
Nadapavai naadagamendru naamum sernthu nadithirupom.

Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
'The immensity of Irom Sharmila Chanu’s now six-year-old protest is matched only by the paralysing indifference of the State and the national media.'