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Courage to Art

Attention, Art and Ancestry as Weapons Against Apathy

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Swarnali Mukherjee
Mar 25, 2025
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Our eyes are often mirrors of illusion—things are not always as they seem. We see a solitary wild dandelion sprouting from an arid land, yet we overlook the sunlight, rain, earth, and time, all whispering it into being. The whole universe has conspired to bring this little wildflower into existence.

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Namaste friends,

A lifetime ago, when I lived in Dehradun, I would gaze at the distant beauty of the Himalayan foothills clustering together in the misty horizons of the Garhwal valley and wonder about the future—my own and the world’s. I dreamt of all the places I would see,…

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