Liberty is a fundamental political concept which is tied to an individual’s freedom, dignity and self worth. So, how should/do we define liberty? Can we define it at all? Quentin Skinner, being a Nietzschean, says we cannot define liberty since concepts that have history cannot have a definition. The meaning…

Women and common life is a collection of nine essays where Christopher Lasch “tries to trace the interconnections between the modern ideology of intimacy, the new domestic ideal of the nineteenth century and feminism”. I enjoyed and appreciated this book better since I was exposed to his ideology via “The…

Rothko to me is a spiritual experience. I was not an artsy person when I visited Rothko Room for the first time in Phillips Collection, DC. Luckily it wasn’t a busy day and I got to spend a lot of time in the Rothko room by myself. At first glance…

Few weeks back I started gratitude journaling and within a short period of time I identified the recurring theme — books! Reading was my solace when I was struggling to find my foothold in a foreign country. It comforted me during heartbreaks, supported me through depression and remedied existential crisis…

According to Simon de Beauvoir, in her seminal feminist manifesto (The Second Sex), a woman is rather defined by her social roles and her existential objective is to transcribe the assigned meaning into her essence. Any possible means prescribed to transcend her ascribed significance — narcissism (devotion to herself), devotion…