Power is toxic to culture
Power and culture are in perennial conflict with each other. Countries experience this and so do homes. States and Union Territories in India know this. Politicians too understand the phenomenon and yet go on stoking power conflagrations. Corporates get into the heart of power contests more readily than adopting a culturally friendly attitude. Families are...
The right approach to resolutions
Life exists between the said and unsaid, read and unread, and thoughts that stay and those that fly away. This is the real constant and we are all somewhere in between but forever believing that we are on one or the other shore. This is one reason why I consider resolutions in life so full...
Must writers shut-up and shut-off while writing?
These days when I pick up a work of fiction I am literally dragged into a net of words where characters seem comfortable with Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and sometimes even Instagram and I find this strange. Plots hover around villains communicating on Gmail, heroes are Whatsapping poetry to their girl-friends, and long-distance conversations are happening...
Look who’s watching me
Don’t ever think you are not being watched. Even when you think there is no one around and you are surrounded by silence. Even when it is dark and nothing is visible. Even when there are people around busy doing their work. Eyes don’t walk and even when they shift their glance they do it...
A maverick trapped in a body
Life is a fun-loving sentence that doesn’t follow any rules of sublime grammar. No rules of nouns and pronouns or conjunctions and prepositions asking words to follow a specified pattern. I have seen full-stops popping up even before pauses have existed. There are times when adjectives pile up in comic sequences without even attempting to...
The way stories unfold
Ideas for stories believe in a 360 degree freedom to enter. This is more than the mind being like a fortress that is besieged because inspirations for plots do not need the fortress gates to open. Ideas have the power to come in anyway and they could very well walk through the walls as if...
Trapped inside the same pattern
Most of us choose to stay away from unnecessary challenges. We love the usual, get confused when life offers an array of ever-multiplying choices, and firmly believe that getting out of one’s comfort zone is extremely fool-hardy. I know that most readers will read this and mutter, ‘Nonsense! Not me, at least.’ But hey, don’t...
Lets Talk Tigers
‘We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth,’ wrote Zephyr McIntyre and whenever we talk of the environment, the eco-system, wildlife, conservation, or even tigers, what matters more than anything else is perception. I have always believed that starting from the...
We are not living in violent and depraved times
Villainy and violence are quite intimidating and generally do no good to any sort of development anywhere except being a sporadic inspiration for stand-up comedians, mimicry artists, and doodlers on the net. When I commanded Google to fetch for me pictures or images of villains of Bollywood, it surprised me by putting in the US...
Nothing ever disappears
The funny thing is that we humans believe that everything that is born will eventually die. But nothing dies. Nothing disappears forever. Moments of disorientation, sadness, anger, discontent, ill-will, hatred, live on just as moments of love, harmony, contentment, camaraderie, and togetherness do. They do not come and stay forever but also do not suddenly...
A woman is the full circle
Diane Mariechild wasn’t off the mark when she called a woman a full circle and added that ‘within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform’. The entire system of a 360 degree development revolves around women and even Kofi Annan wrote that ‘there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment...
XXX
Thirty in Roman Numerals is XXX and we know the three together are often used for love and kisses besides to their snide relationship with porn. So when I read somewhere that most of us use barely thirty percent of the capabilities of a smartphone or any other gadget, I wasn’t surprised. ‘After all,’ I...
