Abhinavagupta, yes we all know, nah... many of us know a little or more than little about this aesthetician(1) from Kashmir region towards late first millennium AD. But, why did I choose this name? Why did I select particularly this name? What am I supposed to do? Or, what will I do? I am not too sure...
You may say that it was just by chance that I got to take up this name for this platform. It is true that I want to express my views, problematise certain things as well as my own self through this blog platform. But that, I do not feel, has anything to do with the name of this amazingly creative and critical aesthetician from a time and space that we have almost banished into oblivion at today's date. Is it going to any justice to him, anyway? I don't know. Frankly speaking, I do not feel that whatever I do here will have anything to do with his name, or anyone else's name, for that matter.
But, as they say, let's wait and watch.
NOTES
1. I had reservations while using that word against Abhinavagupta's name. It's not that he is not considered an aesthetician. He is. But, the problem is with the word and its applicability for a person like him. The problem is, this word - AESTHETICS - was put to use for the first ever time, obviously in Europe, in the 18th century. And, Abhinavagupta hails from a period some 1000 years back. So...
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