'To look needs no philosophy, no teacher. Nobody need tell you how to look. You just look!'

On DOORS | A Humanities Monthly E-Magazine

Jidduji asks us all a very intriguing, pertinent and highly perceptive question, which also doubles up as a clarion call to us all -

Can you and I, then, bring about in ourselves without any outside influence, without any persuasion, without any fear of punishment - can we bring about in the very essence of our being a total revolution, a psychological mutation, so that we are no longer brutal, violent, competitive, anxious, fearful, greedy, envious and all the rest of the manifestations of our nature which have built up the rotten society in which we live our daily lives?  

Well, then,  as Jidduji asks us all, is a total revolution possible in the very essence of our being? 

Can we do our little might to the transformation of hearts and minds? 

Could we do our little might to liberate hearts and minds from the fetters and the shackles that constrain them?

On a similar vein, to a similar beat, Bhuva aka Bhuvanesh Santharam has been carrying on with this noble mission for quite some time now! A student of II MA English at MCC, Bhuva has been hugely inspired by renowned poet Gieve Patel. His poems have such an intense ‘reality of representment’ to their feel, their form and their texture.

A profound Jidduji admirer [like myself], Bhuva has an amazing way with words. As Jidduji says,

To be able to look at this seems to me all that is needed, because if we know how to look, then the whole thing becomes very clear, and to look needs no philosophy, no teacher. Nobody need tell you how to look. You just look.

And Bhuva’s highly perceptive way of seeing and perceiving life have taken shape in the form of wonderful musings.

The result is, a lovely platform of sorts to rock the floor, and it’s titled, DOORS.

DOORS is a Humanities-oriented monthly e-magazine that sports profound musings of all hues with such lustre and vibrancy.

Reading through the posts in DOORS you are sure to get introduced to an ensemble of sorts that awaits y’all!

The icing on the cake I would say, is the interview that DOORS Magazine has done with the guitarist of 3000AD, a three piece thrash metal band based in Christchurch, New Zealand. 3000AD’s guitarist is in his elements obliging Bhuva for every question that was shot at him! And both interviewer and interviewee have done their bestest in bringing out their best for the reader!

‘It is an art only my generation knows!’ opens Sharon Thomas’s impressions on ‘Clockwise and Anticlockwise’! A delightful rumination worth an intense ponder.

A host of other delightful reads also await the ardent reader!

‘Meditations over the Mandala’ by Almas Thanzi contains real impactful musings on the archaic art of mandalas, which is widely considered to be the offspring of artistry and Buddhist philosophy!

“Making Every Day ‘World Environment Day’” by Bhuvanesh Santharam contains refined gems gleaned from Theodore Bhaskaran’s speech, given at the annual M. Krishnan Memorial Nature Writing award function hosted by the Madras Naturalists’ Society (MNS) on 4th May 2019, in Chennai. Some of the insightful observations on M. Krishnan are the real need of the hour for us all today.

‘Remembering the Sunflower: Suggestions of Hope in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry’, makes an insightful reading.

Bhuva, in one of his musings, introduces us to G Nanda Kumar, aka Nandu, a 22 year old, who hails from a village in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh called Diguvapalem. Nandu had quit formal education in the middle of his 12th grade in order to pursue his passion for organic farming and has now set up a learning centre in his village. The article is a real eye-opener of sorts, and I hope society is all ears to Nandu and his ilk!

Yet another wonderful read titled, ‘Cultural Alienation of the Naga Tribes’, by Kevinguno Nakhro Thou talks about the need to make a conscious attempt to revive and restore the forgotten culture, in order to sustain the identity of an ethnic community in a fast changing world.

How can anyone forget the popular American drama film, ‘Dead Poets Society’ which is into its thirtieth year celebrations this year. John Keating aka Robin Williams literally stole the show and our hearts as well, ain’t he? Well, there’s a delightful take on ‘Dead Poets Society’ on DOORS!

Bhuva’s take on Gojira’s third studio album From Mars to Sirius from a bioregional and posthuman eco-critical perspective, offers impactful insights into a wonderful bioregional case study of sorts!

This Humanities-Oriented Monthly Mag - DOORS - gently opens up for you, to lead you into amazing pathways that seek to refresh and to replenish yourself!

DOORS can be accessed at the link HERE.

Here’s wishing Bhuva and his team the best in this, their noble initiative at DOORS.

May their tribe increase manifold!!!