“In order to designate reality, Buddhism says sunya, the void; but better still: tathata, as Alan Watts has it, the fact of being this, of being thus, of being so; tat  means that in Sanskrit and suggests the gesture of the child pointing his finger at something and saying: that, there it is, lo! but says nothing else…”

Page 5, Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes

Hemant Sareen is a freelance writer, editor and photographer based in New Delhi. He studied International Politics at the University of Leeds. His book reviews and articles have been published in India and abroad.