Aasem Bakhshi is a computer engineer, living and teaching in Islamabad. His research relates to biomedical signal processing and artificial intelligence. His literary interests are multidisciplinary, equally belonging to the fields of philosophy, science and literature. He has been actively engaged in various translation projects for the last couple of years and besides rendering short stories of various authors in Urdu, he has also translated Dai Sijie's novel 'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'. Another novel 'Goat Days'by Benyamin and short stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa are works in progress. He has also translated selected essays of American philosophers Abraham Joshua Heschel (Jewish philosophy), Charles Sander Peirce (philosophy of science), and parts of Primo Levi's 'If this is a Man' into Urdu. A collection of his poetry Shahrah-e-Shawq has been published in 2015. Email: [email protected]
by Aasem Bakhshi Of all the critiques of Descartes (d.1650), Bachelard’s stands out, as he has selected those principles of Cartesian method which were passed on in silence by other critics, presumably for their seeming innocence. With most of the detractors of the father of modern philosophy, it has either been the principle of universal…
by Aasem Bakhshi Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat…
by Aasem Bakhshi This letter was written in 2013 as a self-reflection exercise in response to Karen Armstrong's letter which she wrote in 2011 to the people of Pakistan to discover compassion in their daily lives 1. In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful Earlier this week, I was visiting a small roadside…