Tag: existentialism

• 2021. The Year of Humanity’s Burn Out.

  One of the defining experiences of the pandemic has been the constant anxiety grating at our conscience, not letting us recharge completely – the burnout. The overwhelmed medical fraternity experienced it. So did the migrant workers orphaned from the mai-baap sarkaar. The anxious and overworked security guard felt it. So did the digital worker straining […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  August 3, 2021

  “Insights”, Uncategorized

  2021, burn out, climate change, existentialism, human condition, lockdown, meaning, mental health, pandemic, uncertainty

• Fight for your tomorrow

  

  A generation working against its own interest It’s been 7 years since I entered the world of advertising. It’s been longer than that with the attempt to understand world and power – by reading Chomsky, Ambedkar, Amartya Sen and so on. As you can imagine (if you have read these people that is), there was […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  June 3, 2016

  Business of advertising, Futures, Uncategorized

  advertising, angst, existentialism, utopia

• Rebels without a cause

  Saw ‘Tanu weds Manu returns’ yesterday. Excellent movie after a long time. 🙂 (apart from one dimensional Manu and the Haryanvi family as prop.) I – Restless = humans It made me think about the trend of lead characters in bollywood movies – men/ women. (Raj in countless SRK films or Kangana in most of […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  May 26, 2015

  Decoding movies and stories

  bollywood, existentialism, gender, identity, india, kangana, mascilinity, narcissism, partner, rebel, review