Dreams Of Dusk

The Bard of Bengal was deeply patriotic, rooted in humanity and moral responsibility—not in aggressive nationalism or blind loyalty to the state. History has suggested that Tagore was critical of aggressive nationalism, as it led to xenophobia. Tagore religiously believed that India’s true potential lies in diversity, and that fierce nationalism may become hostile towards welcoming incoming cultures, threatening the unified diversity of the nation. He fearlessly let his thoughts flow, entertaining their persuasion and consequences—generating the phenomena that truly depict that certain rare thoughts can be and should be entertained before being accepted. So today, in this essay, we shall think critically about the birth of a thought, its mandatory analysis, method of persuasion, and the outcomes that one desires from it. To be able to think is the mother of the process. Rejecting mass opinion and then coming towards a fairly developed conclusion is the first target to be achiev...

The dream of flight has been in vogue since ancient times. Humans have always been engaged in imagination and illusions about being able to fly like birds. The genius of the 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci, through his artistic abilities, designed flying machines on paper, but none of them ever came into practical existence. Later, the father of aviation, George Cayley of England in the 1800s, introduced the distinguished concepts of lift, thrust, and drag, along with testing gliders. Otto Lilienthal flew a glider successfully, which further inspired the Wright brothers to make their first flight in 1903, which lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. The paper-art dream of Leonardo was finally in the sky — the very sky he must have once looked at with hope. This whole journey of partial success accompanied by failure gives us a clear picture of how soaring it is for human imagination to come into existence through technology, where art too finds a similar place. Both art and technolog...

The great Mauryan emperor Ashoka started his journey of a monarch as a ruthless emperor. He was merciless and saw war as the ultimate religion of a great king, until the war of Kalinga took place — the one that changed the course of his life and transformed him into “Devanampiya Piyadassi Ashoka” — beloved of the gods, who looks with kindness. Ashoka chose non-violence as the path of life; he chose the path of Buddhism after being dazzled by the war of Kalinga. All this happened due to the very natural human phenomenon which can be termed as “a shift in perspective.” The great emperor Ashoka serves as a testimony for our essay: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” In simple words, it’s all about perspectives and indeed, it always has been and will always be about perspectives — how one sees or observes things, the outcomes received, and how each person has a different view than the other. In this essay, we shall explore the art of having different approaches a...