A young girl, with evidently little sophistication is quite worried. Her parents are discussing about the boy who is coming to see her next week with a marriage proposal. Her mother’s hopes are low it appears, because of her dusky... (Continue reading)
Beauty is The Promise We keep rising from a failure! Beauty is the Innocence Smile and Curiosity We observe in our Child! Beauty is the Small Sacrifices Made to raise us by our Parent! Beauty is the Smile and Unconditional... (Continue reading)
I dedicate the twin poems from my book Nature at my door step(2011) with lots of admiration, love and prayers to the living legend Irom Shormila who has been fasting from the year 2000 onwards fighting for her people’s freedom.... (Continue reading)
Connection with spirituality may not be termed as India’s tradition but a practice since ancient times. The belief of a supreme power and the will to connect to divinity has been prevailing since Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro civilization. This was intensified... (Continue reading)
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The shocking murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane has deeply anguished the duty conscious civil service community. Adulterators have become so powerful that they are able to kill a duty conscious civil servant in full public glare. Adulteration is not... (Continue reading)
Parched cracking earth stark, skeletoned trees skin stretched over brittle ribs of gaunt starved cattle. Old wrinkled eyes staring at silent skies bony calloused palms open upwards in despair. Harmless cottony clouds mockingly flit past dry wells yawn endlessly into... (Continue reading)
A house full of people and their neighbours waited in the street. The men especially were alert and expecting something. All their eyes glued to the street’s end. The mournful eyes shed all the tears. There was an inexplicable shock... (Continue reading)
Last Sunday on The Hindu open page was an article ‘The home came live as TV conked out.” And yes, it is true in most case. Years before when our states had to undergo the blessed load shedding power offs,... (Continue reading)
Castaway in rugged rock sharpened shore I looked for faces Death an anomic island Where no babies play No passionate lover kisses No amber sun shines and shrinks No far away fisherman sings and sails No coconut grove grows and... (Continue reading)