Image courtesy: Wikimedia Commons --> This has been a depressing and confusing week, with the news having been mostly bad. The fact that I am far from the action and the hub of sentiment, makes it worse. Having to limit my discussions to the fickle forum that is social media leaves thoughts in a tangle, the anxieties stoked by those within my ideological circle and misgivings heightened by the few on my news feeds who express a contrary view and justify the actions that are causing distress. Like many of my friends, I retreat into a closed nest of words, written by those I believe have thought long and hard about such issues and seem to have the sort of wisdom that provides clarity, if not relief. One of the podcasts I was pointed to a while ago but that I got around to catching up only in the past two days is BBC’s Reith Lectures—often unfairly compared to their more glitzy younger cousin, the TED Talks. Named for the first Director General of the BBC, the lec...
making sense of the everyday