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[181] Mass Hysteria of Truth

August 20, 2018by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

The loneliest thing in the world is to search for the truth in everything and anything. Ask any conscious artist the question, "what is good art?", and most of them will answer "it's the pursuit of truth". No one will ever say "it's when you get to the truth" because no one ever gets to [...]

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[156] Unlearning From My Mistakes

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018by Rahul Gaur19 Comments

Begin. Aimlessness. It's a feeling we all feel at some point in our life, for some it is most of the time. It can range from being aimless about our career choices, our spirituality, about what to eat when you're sitting in a restaurant with the waiter holding the pen and also his attention towards [...]

Write-ups, writing

[144] Rebel With A Cause

May 6, 2018December 18, 2019by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

We are told that "don't upset the system" "don't be a rebel and lose your mind". The reason? The functioning of the system is crucial for miscreants to survive. To not politicise art is just another way of submitting to the pressure of not being seen as a rebel. As the word, 'rebel' has a [...]

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[140] Wasted Times

April 26, 2018April 26, 2018by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

Stillness without contentment is just anxiety brooding. You can have the laziest day turn into a day of rest or it can turn into a day of sulking over your lack of productivity. Being holed up in a room and catching up with yourself can be tiring in an ironical way. Introspection takes effort and [...]

Write-ups, writing

[129] Mind As Summer

February 27, 2018by Rahul Gaur12 Comments

My mind is summer now. Languid in its breathing of thoughts and idle in its progression of time. There is a blinding of the heat that is not surprising as it numbs the mind. Time & again it finds a shade of hope only to realise that it was an illusion of my own scorching [...]

Write-ups, writing

[120] The Glory of Silence

January 15, 2018January 15, 2018by Rahul Gaur28 Comments

There's both glory and doom in knowing yourself. The glory is that self-awareness helps you to not make mistakes. The doom is that you still make mistakes and you are self-aware about it. You suffer. You feel like your suffering knows no bound. No one's suffering can compare with yours. But then you listen to [...]

Cinema, writing

[119] Wake Up – My Micro Short Film

January 12, 2018by Rahul Gaur47 Comments

Hey fellow WordPress bloggers, I've been here for a year and found the best of people here. You guys have helped me gain self-confidence through your comments and feedback on my writing. Having this community has been the highlights of 2017. Other than a writer, I am a filmmaker and I have made this 3-minute-film [...]

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[107] Persona Of A Writer

December 14, 2017by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

All of our thoughts, ideas, ideologies and viewpoints are not real or at least, not our own. All of these are things that sound admirable/respectable. These are things that we steal from films, books and other personalities to form our own. Just because we think we understand these ideas and have no logical argument against [...]

Reflections, writing

[105] A Mini-Reflection On The Journey

December 12, 2017by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

It's been more than 10 days since I've written something. This was sort of a test to check my resolve for writing. How serious am I about it? I wanted to check will I miss writing. I did. Every night there was a want to write. The red book lay catching dust waiting for me [...]

Write-ups, writing

[97] The Less I Know The Better

November 8, 2017November 8, 2017by Rahul Gaur25 Comments

Do we produce work just to keep busy? The act of doing puts us into a trance of forgetfulness of our inabilities to actually produce a work that challenges the current thinking and has the ability to stand the test of time. This is masked by the illusion of improvement which journey to reach a level. [...]