Love appears unannounced
A poem that I wrote in 1984 was all about a few moments together that I spent with the girl who would get to hear them only after we got married a few months later in 1985. isn’t it funny how just a nod or simply a few words mumbled will form an unseen bond...
Unveiling inspiration
Converting a weakness into a strength is what #inspiration is all about. Other elements like hard-work, focus, involved approach, and research can play a role in strange and unexpected ways. Let me give a few examples. There is a story about a boy who had lost his left arm in an accident. He remained shattered...
Life is cool in Delhi, Mr Modi
Newspaper reports live in their own world of make-belief but once in a while they tend to hit upon some conclusion that stays steady from one decade to another, from one generation to the other… and one such conclusion that most renowned editors have never divorced is that the top leadership in the country has...
The LGBTQ war isn’t over
Politicians have never been kind to homosexuality. Not that the society in general and our religious and cultural leaders have been kinder. Known and active politicians like Subramanium Swamy, Yogi Adityanath, Gulam Nabi Azad, Rajnath Singh, Lalu prasad Yadav, have called it unnatural, and a mental disease with a ‘need for psychological treatment’, have emphasized...
Political comedy is a show that never ends
Indian politicians are either smart or street-smart and they assume that whatever they say will finally get them votes when the time comes. I use the word ‘assume’ because more often than not these politicians speak things that lie somewhere between being utterly dumb to being absolutely unsavory. When we are in a charitable mood...
There is no silence
There is no silence. Not when you hold your lover’s hands and look into her eyes, for these are moments when you can hear your heartbeat distinctly. Not when you are trekking on a mountain and there is no one around with music blaring from some Bluetooth speaker because you can still hear a distant...
The Kerala calamity
Disasters affect people. Bridges can be rebuilt, houses can be acquired again, fields will be ready for harvesting soon enough, roads will be repaired, rivers recede, mountains ready themselves for new paths, and even the land strives to even all the upheavals it has experienced, but in the memory of people a disaster remains for...
Intimacy, hormones, and fiction genres
Intimacy, hormones, and fiction genres What happens when, for instance, a trekker meets another trekker or a poet meets another poet or an artist comes across another artist or a movie-enthusiast meets another movie-fan or a tech-fanatic meets another gadget-lover or a traveler meets another travel-enthusiast or a married person meets another married person? They...
Curious minds create – Educated minds applaud
Walking down the road in a small city I came across a few school kids in a smart uniform wondering aloud if any of them could move large stone that was apparently too heavy for any one of them to lift. ‘This can’t be done even by a body-builder,’ said one. ‘Cranes can do it,’...
The revolt against the revolution
If Vlogs are a revolution then Blogs are poised to revolt. Words on paper and words that peer at you through the screen of a smartphone, a tablet, or a laptop have revolted and if you think the revolution fingered by videos is going to die, you need a rethink. The written words have no...
The Pokhran Explosions
Pokhran 1998 wasn’t just about a series of underground nuclear explosions to impress the world or to frighten and quieten our neighbours, but to work as a viable deterrent to outside powers as in the past 2500 years it has invariably been foreign invaders in the sub-continent not once but many times. What happened 20...
The simplest guide to earning money through blogging
Over a period of time I have realized that most people do not like massive paragraphs and long articles. But I simply cannot distance myself from this as writing long posts is my style. So if you want to read more about how your passion for blogging can result in income, read Blogging is an...
