Ashwin Ramesh

The Eyes of Dissonance

Mirror mirror, in your eyes Tell me what I despise Let me see through the layers Piercing through the veil of lies Show me what I fail to see, Show me all that I could have been, Show me all that I lust for, Show me all that I sowed …

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Asking and Receiving- I

Context: there are three main aspects that you can actually utilize in life, which are asking the right questions, reading the signs and listening hard to what experience tells you. If you are attuned to going beyond and actually yearning for the answers; as in if you want the answers …

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Awake

Remove the layers, Prejudice and judgment Feel the freedom Revel in the chaos;   Absorb the energy, Throbbing and vast, Acknowledge the whole, Revel in the beauty;   Feel the connections, Deep and pure, Do not give into fear, Revel in the nakedness;   Look into the eyes, See yourself …

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The Blind Tongue

Words, those blatant and shallow sounds; We attribute a lot to them, yet wallow; In the immense distance that they present; Between the concept and the experience;   To be sure about what a word is; It is not enough to know what it means; As knowing its meaning is …

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The Extremes of Music (Part-1)

All types of music have the innate power to cause a deep impact on pretty much anyone who has the ability to perceive it. But then there are those few artists who have the power to literally churn the inside of your head into custard; to give you an experience …

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Did we cook our way into consciousness?

There is one question which has puzzled anthropologists, evolutionists and literally every other “ologist” associated or interested in understanding the origins of humans and how we evolved from primitive apes munching on leaves and berries into the “sophisticated” beings that we are today. Well, for that matter, some prominent individuals …

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