imagination

[Prefatory Note: The text below is drawn from a talk given at the Spring Festival of the Arts in Beirut, Lebanon on 15 June 2017. Comments welcome]
 
Living in Dystopian Times
 

[Disclaimer: I am not an art critic, artist, or travelled in the world of art. This is just a memoir] (I) Fort Kochi, 9 Feb. 2017 Though I had already been to the biennale in January and had a roaring time, something kept urging me to go there again. That something, I believe, is my … Continue reading Longing for the World: A Memoir of Two Days at the Kochi Biennale

Why in the hell do we even bother teaching kids in the first place? Anatole France said that “[t]he whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” Look how we destroy their spirit. In this simple Friday disquisition is my look at imagination and the brain. Inter alia, of course.