The Gift of Food

theforgetfulblink, “‘Border o Border’: ‘Trolley Times’ Teaser with Madan Gopal Singh,” YouTube, January 8, 2021, ➝.

The Sikh notion of Chardi Kala, namely the rising life force, sometimes spoken during religious sermons, other times deployed at personal existential or community levels, emerges here as a reflection or a continuum of Hannah Arendt's idea of Vita Activa, where human life generates the provisions of freedom and work, of doing and acting.

Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2004).