Jambudweepam

By now, I think, it is unnecessary for me to belabor the point that you need to take these superlatives...like 'greatest'...with a pinch of salt. Much like you have learned to not take GOAT literally. After all, even if that 'AT' means 'All Times', it is difficult to think of that as true when the GOAT in cricket, say, changes almost every match even based on the same person's o...

There you are again. The 'best' has made its appearance. I think hyperbole is the term in poetry when exggeration is used to make a point. You are not allowed to say 'But...but...in that last poem, you said that something else was the best.'. People will groan and look at you as though you just crawled out from under a stone and did not have the grace to stay unnoticed. So, NOW,...

I have had reason to say this about philosophers, especially philosopher-poets. They have this tendency to exaggerate the specific virtue or vice that they are talking of at the moment. Maybe it is something that is more true of this portion of the world. Like, you know, 'mother of all battles'. So, yeah, at any point in time, whatever we are talking of is the 'greatest virtue' ...

If there is a thing that almost all philosophers agree upon, it is the importance of controlling your tongue. Not surprising, really, since philosophers deal mainly in words that they should be very wary of how you speak words and the impact of ill-chosen words.Tiru is no different. Especially when he says this...Ondraanun theechchol porutpayan undaayin nandraaga dhaagi vidum - ...