तुम्हारी खिड़की
मेरे कमरे की खिड़की और मैं अक्सर बाहर से गुजरते लोगों को देखा करते है। सबको जल्दी कही जाना होता है, कुछ देर वो जाते हुए दिखाई देते है। फिर नजरों के दायरों से ओझल हो जाते है। मुझे अक्सर…
Fix it
“Shhhh…. listen. Do you hear that noise? I told you to keep the windows locked, but you never listen to me, never.” Now see what a mess it has become, I will have to clean up everything now. “Are you…
A Tale of Indecisiveness
“What is that noise?” Mira grumbled. “The alarm. Wake up” Mira opened her eyes, still groggy from the sleep. She got off the bed and headed for the bathroom. “I need to start a book. The same boring routine day…
My encounter with Hemidactylus frenatus
In lay mans lucid words in a peak summer typically in a middle class household an encounter with house lizard is almost inevitable. With lizards renouncing its presence I became more and more conscious but to my surprise or more…
The romance of the sun and the moon
Long ago in a faraway land was a tiny kingdom called Summer Harbour. It was as beautiful as one could fathom, drowned in resplendent colours in the season of spring and between the paving stones of warm breeze came blooms…
Prostitution: the contemporary slavery
I recently read several books by the British author Jean Sasson who spent a few years of her life in the middle East and wrote about the plight of women due to the stereotypical atmosphere deeply ingrained into the customs…
Naive Sita
“Is there someone else in his life now, Maa?” The Earth shivered as Sita asked this awful question in the dead of the night. The old leaves from the Ashoka tree rained on Sita, as the tree shivered along with…
The obdurate, grumpy and the savage half
Words are whetting stones of a revolution in which literature has an imperative role to play. The Victorian literature reinforces the ‘supposedly’ ordered and stable societal state which is governed by a strict code of conduct that was extended to…
Art as an Escape
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton Art is like a forbidden sword; it shall not be touched by anyone who doesn’t believe in living a little more, by anyone who…
Human and Environment
Introduction All living beings including man and the environment are affecting each other in a number of ways and there is a dynamic equilibrium existing between them. What we do and what we experience can change our genes, and we…