Truth and doubt

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes

Anuraag

Enjoy. The online radio station is playing a piece by Ustad Vilayat Khan right now. Exquisite. Isn't beauty the central aim of Indian music? I feel the same cannot be said of Western classical music. Music of the Baroque period may be an exception. Baroque is my favourite Western mode; Bach my favourite composer. Beauty, invention, art, even devotion.

Happy Onam.

Movies I saw recently...

Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky

Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky

The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah

Ashes of time
Wong Kar-Wai

Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Woman in dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara

Ghost Dog : The Way Of The Samurai
Jim Jarmusch

In a Lonely Place
Nicholas Ray

Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch

The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson

Babel
Alejandro González Iñárritu

Edward scissorhands
Tim Burton

The Happening
M.Night Shyamalan

The man who knew too little
Jon Amiel

Wall-E
Andrew Stanton

Mulan
Tony Bancroft And Barry Cook