Daffodils
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Daffodils All of us who have had some exposure to English poetry must possess the whole or part of the poem by heart. There are a multitude of flowers more eye-catching than daffodils, but Wordsworth, in his short poem, virtually immortalises their vivacity and splendour. There was a very intimate correlation […]
Words as Remedy
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Words as Remedy I was an average student though the school I was studying in, was quite pricy and elitist. I somehow managed to keep afloat by swotting up the syllabus a few weeks before the ogre of the final examination started looming larger and closer. My top priority was just […]
Positivity Ltd
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Positivity Ltd When words are overused or flogged to death in conversation or script, they lose their meaning and degenerate into tokens that we exchange on social or ceremonial occasions. “Could norning” utters a warm voice on the telephone. “Good morning,” you mutter drowsily. It is rather early in the day […]
Gitanjali
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Gitanjali It is a handy book of poems, so exiguous you can fold the paperback edition and insert it in your pocket. You can slow-read it in a couple of hours while reverting and re-reading parts of it. Poetry, by its very nature, resists perfunctory or fast reading. It comprises about […]
Real Estate and Job Creation: Going beyond the relativist perspective
Real Estate and Job Creation: Going beyond the relativist perspective “The Ideal is rather sacred, if not unattainable.” – Anonymous If there is any grain of truth left in the assertion quoted above, then that would most likely fit with the current narrative related to real estate being a proactive axis of employment generation. It’s […]
Schadenfreude
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Schadenfreude Schadenfreude is a loanword in English borrowed from German. It means feeling joy, satisfaction, or an instantaneous ego boost in the misfortune of the other with whom you have a nominal equation: he may be your competitor, rival, condescending, holier-than-thou patron, or neighbor you are not particularly fond of You […]
Sustainable Architecture: Paving the Way for Smarter and Greener Living Spaces
From Fiction To Nonfiction. What Lessons Can Be Learned From Novellas Mimicking Reality? “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” – Winston Churchill In this profound quote, Winston Churchill highlights the powerful interplay between the world we build and how it impacts our lives. Architecture is merely not just a collection of structures; rather, […]
Ashoka
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Ashoka ‘No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.’ (Thomas Carlyle) Carlyle was an eminent Victorian philosopher whose influence on history, art, culture, and literature has been remarkably pervasive. Every great man exerts a centrifugal force that affects the meteorology of […]
If
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – If This is a somewhat peculiar title for one of the most anthologized poems by the celebrated poet, Rudyard Kipling: ‘If, followed closely by an elongated hyphen or dash. He chose this punctuation to foreshadow several conditional clauses across the four stanzas, which the last line of the poem clinches with […]
Soundscapes
Pujit Aggarwal Redivivus – Soundscapes Silence should ideally be the mother of sound. Without this prerequisite, it would be difficult to differentiate one sound from another. Speech in any context is punctuated with short pauses of silence, which ensure its audibility and, above all, intelligibility. When audibility begins to predominate, it not only mars comprehension […]
