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The Last Request
Your absence becomes a ghost and haunts the emptiness of my heart. Perhaps even my mind, who knows? You have been granted the power of what I am not. Whenever I, as I know myself, cease to be, I...
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Approved
Cold can be a pint of lager. Cold can be a solid wall of glass. Cold can be the air-conditioner aimed at my cubicle from 9 to 5. But neither your breath or sweat, nor your exhaustion or stink. Those...
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Still My Paradise
I see some faces floating in the froth, in the clandestine clots of street-water. One looks like our prime minister, another like a boiled egg, or turnip. The only human features I relate to, turn out...
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Home for the Buried
That place, which I had even called home at times. That place where, in the end, only your absence lingers on and a strand of your hair on the pillow carves out tears, is suddenly full of only...
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The Premio Dardos Award
The Premio Dardos Award? The Dardos Award is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were...
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River Saraswati
Prologue: Myths, if our schoolbooks are to be believed, are all the foundation ancient India stands on. If our eminent historians have it entirely their way, soon our children shall believe that...
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Staring into the night
At the limits of the visible world abilities stand dismayed. Amidst the dark vegetation, perhaps from the fringes of opacity, blinks the inebriated firefly. In her own swirls is lost the graceful...
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The India outside India – I
The Vedas and the vedic knowledge were born in India. As time has flown by, many natural calamities and socio-political upheavals have modified the picture of this landmass to a large extent. But, in...
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Ritualistic Animal Sacrifice in Ancient India
To the common Hindu, the very idea of killing a cow – an animal considered to be holy in their religious tradition – is capable of sending a chill down the spine. To regard a cow as a holy animal is a...
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I, Motherland
Born a few thousand years old. Aged by fate and heritage, maturing in subjectivities of history. Thus I stand amidst others, who, like myself, stand testimony to distances of time. Separated from the...
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