शुभं भवतु !
शुभं भवतु ।
सर्वसङ्ग्रामा निवर्तन्ताम् ।
क्षुधापिपासेत्यादिदुःखान्यपयान्तु ।
सर्वे तत्त्वमवबुध्यन्ताम् ।
सर्वेषु भूतेषु शुभं भवतु ।
Posted at 6:31 pm on December 7, 2008 | leave a comment | Filed Under: मङ्गलाचरणानि | Tagged: Sanskrit | read on
The Story of Stuff
Several years back a few sociology friends asked me how I felt about consumption. In retrospect, they were clearly expecting a theoretical response analyzing it in the abstract–its relation to labor, the production of commodities, etc. But I couldn’t get past the concrete ways consumption plays out in American consumerism: the colonial-style [...]
Posted at 4:32 pm on December 7, 2008 | 1 comment | Filed Under: consumption | Tagged: big business, Chomsky, consumerism, consumption, environmentalism, grad co-op, materialism | read on
