Srinagar, Oct. 7 -- Have you ever taken a moment in the midst of your hectic day to sit back and gaze at yourself and wonder, "Am I actually living my life, or is life merely whizzing by me?" At initial glance, it seems to be a shallow or rhetorical question, one of those philosophers' thoughts best left for a deserted coffee shop or dog-eared book of stale thought. But if you stand firm with it, actually let it resound, it opens onto one of the most profound questions a human being can ever find himself posing: the dance between freedom and fate, choice and accident, self and the enigma of life unfolding.Philosophy wants to begin not with solutions, but with questions; the questions that strike across the normal path of our mind and make...