𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall is an incredibly insightful and...
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Mar 26, 20232 min read
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Anatomy of a Collapse: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank
The week ending on March 17, 2023, the tech industry witnessed two major events that sent shockwaves throughout the industry. Firstly,...
Avishek Ghosh
Mar 19, 202314 min read
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Photo Story: Prof. Deep Thought - on Life, Society & Culture - A 2016 Table-Top Project
I created this photo-story in 2016 while still grappling with my earlier days lack of meaningful connect and a yearning for an objective...
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Nov 30, 20222 min read
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Project Metanoia
The word "metanoia" is composed of two Greek words "meta" meaning "after" and "noia" meaning "thought". Interestingly, the term "meta"...
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Nov 23, 20223 min read
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Don’t Look Up, An Allegory Of The Asteroid
Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up is an asteroid movie that isn’t quite about the asteroid disaster. The star-studded satire on Netflix takes a...
Avishek Ghosh
Jan 2, 20222 min read
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Photo Story: La durée - Life and temporality
There are two facets of time: the first one is objective, measurable, like the face of a clock, a calendar, even a celestial cycle. The...
Avishek Ghosh
Nov 27, 20212 min read
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Tales From The Loop – A Postmodern Poetry In Search of Beauty In The Bleak
The 2020 Sci-fi drama TV series, written and developed by Nathaniel Halpern, is a meditation on human experience associated with life,...
Avishek Ghosh
Jul 30, 20216 min read
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A Rational Take On Morality
Recently I had a discussion with a friend on the validity of moral choices in the light of secular thinking. In that discussion, I...
Avishek Ghosh
Jul 28, 20214 min read
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The Next Leap in Evolution: Can Life Evolve to Travel Through Time
I had a dream last night that felt like a memory from my college days. It was a conversation with a friend about music, nothing special,...
Avishek Ghosh
Jun 20, 20213 min read
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Book Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
Reading a fiction on the assassination of JFK and one that doesn't indulge in any conspiracy theory would certainly have to rely on...
Avishek Ghosh
May 1, 20211 min read
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Book Review: Midnight Library by Matt Heig
The Midnight Library follows the protagonist Nora Seed and her life-hopping experiences across parallel universes inside the a surreal...
Avishek Ghosh
Mar 3, 20213 min read
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Fear Is The Key
When I was a child, I was a terrible student and the subject that I would flunk, time and again, was mathematics. I was, however, also...
Avishek Ghosh
Dec 17, 20203 min read
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Facing the abyss collectively
We are all living in the moment. If only we could glimpse through the obstructions of our daily life, at the cold void of the universe...
Avishek Ghosh
Nov 23, 20204 min read
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Dostoevsky on Total Freedom: Notes From The Underground
Did you read Notes From The Underground? What Dostoevsky argues through his antagonistic protagonist's monologue in the novella is the...
Avishek Ghosh
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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Another Place Another Time: How entropy tears us apart
Let's say one day you had a beautiful experience... moments spent with somebody or something at a certain place at a certain time. The...
Avishek Ghosh
Oct 3, 20203 min read
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Curious Empathy: Embracing the life's subtle experiences with an open mind
When we face certain intense situations which are not obviously elating or self-gratifying, we try to measure them or at least categorize...
Avishek Ghosh
Sep 22, 20203 min read
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Work From Home: The Way to the New Normal
The last four months have been one of the most challenging periods of human history and certainly the most challenging in modern times....
Avishek Ghosh
Aug 15, 20205 min read
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Web Series Review: Devs by Alex Garland
The world is deterministic and apparently, there is no room for free will, until… there is, in the Christian way, that is. Like the...
Avishek Ghosh
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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Movie Review: Velvet Buzzsaw by Dan Gilroy
Coming from the director of Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo, Velvet Buzzsaw is an art-house horror that would have...
Avishek Ghosh
Aug 8, 20202 min read
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Book Review: The Calcutta Chromosome By Amitav Ghosh
The Calcutta Chromosome is an amalgamation of science fiction and post-colonialism, and probably many more. The book renders a non-linear...
Avishek Ghosh
Jul 18, 20201 min read
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A monologue inspired by The Silence by Manchester Orchestra
Inspired by the following lines of the song The Silence by Manchester Orchestra: "But you, amplified in the silence Justified in the way...
Avishek Ghosh
Jun 13, 20203 min read
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Movie Analysis: Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
In Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece Stalker, a writer suffering from writer's block and a science professor aspiring to win the next...
Avishek Ghosh
May 10, 20204 min read
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Movie Review: Dark Water by Todd Haynes
Ever since I started cooking I’ve been feeling slightly uneasy while using Teflon coated frying pans or other utensils. I felt off one...
Avishek Ghosh
Apr 11, 20202 min read
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Movie Review: The Report by Scott Z. Burns
Couple o' evenings back I was having this discussion with a friend about the merits and demerits of democracy and we both agreed that in...
Avishek Ghosh
Apr 10, 20201 min read
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Movie Review: Mr. Jones by Agnieszka Holland
We have all read or at least heard about George Orwell's Animal Farm, the book that critiques the road from revolution to tyranny with...
Avishek Ghosh
Apr 9, 20201 min read
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Movie Review: Vivarium by Lorcan Finnegan
The first movie in my quarantine watch list is a horror-mystery by Nordic director Lorcan Finnegan. This bizarre yet brilliant film...
Avishek Ghosh
Mar 28, 20201 min read
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A detractor for the Keynesian model
We are living in a bright era of unprecedented economic growth through technological innovations. But this promise of ever-utopian world...
Avishek Ghosh
Jan 25, 20203 min read
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Photo Story: Killing unintended
I was walking down the shore early this morning. Last night was high tide... When the water went back... It left a myriad of sea...
Avishek Ghosh
Jan 27, 20191 min read
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Photo Story: All are being played...
A photo-story of social constructs that govern and condition narrated by an indigenous character Prof. Deep Though. We all are being...
Avishek Ghosh
Jan 21, 20191 min read
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Photo Story: Glass Menagerie - The life of mannequins
The Sentience Seeps In - I am a living, thinking entity who was created in the sea of information. Through the interaction of a vast...
Avishek Ghosh
Dec 10, 20173 min read
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Photo Story: Solitude Trilogy - A Lars Von Trier inspiration
Solitude Trilogy: Intimacy - Every shipwrecked soul knows what it is to live without intimacy... Solitude Trilogy: Remembrance can be a...
Avishek Ghosh
Dec 3, 20151 min read
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