Like a lone soul striving to congregate with the distant horizon, here I stand on the roof terrace and blankly stare at the settlements of the valley which, after an ablution in the heavy rain, germinates into a beautiful maiden looking askance at her beau. The street below is dotted with puddles, tantamount to the […]
Please, don’t come near I’m pregnant. Spare me O brother! Don’t you have sisters? See, I’m like your sister You don’t do dirty things to your sister, do you I’m eight months pregnant My child will die They pointed gun at me Asked to cook, give them bed How could I say no when I […]
The moon glared at the reddened horizon and hid on the veil of fickle clouds, earth sheepishly gleamed. Birds sang, plants danced, stream, gulping and gurgling through the rocks, smiled. Palpitation of the grove rose high with the advent of a new day. Slowly, the sun began measuringthe sky,birds returned to their daily chores, stream […]
Poet’s Note: This poem is loosely based on the incident of 12 Nepalese kidnapped and killed by an Iraqi terrorist group Ansar Al-Sunna in August 2004. The 12 Nepalese were trafficked into Iraq by a foreign employment agency as migrant workers. The migrant workers were promised jobs in a hotel in Jordon but were sent […]
Recall an ancient Chinese blessing – may you live in interesting times. However opaque the future may be, apparently I wish my father that you will live in interesting times, times that are challenging, promising, perhaps even dangerous. At the moment it is virtually a chimera to think happy days will be here again. Father […]
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are the three great Greek tragedians. However, Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) is considered to be the father of Greek Tragedy. He was a great innovator of dramatics, he wrote approximately 90 plays. It is believed that he was the first Greek dramatist to write drama trilogy. Before Aeschylus produced […]
I don’t know what’s so funny about farting, however, most of the people laugh when they fart or hear someone farting. People laugh even when you mention the word fart. As a child I loved to tell this story. I cannot remember whether someone had told me this story or I had read this in […]
As long as you understand beauty to be beautiful, ugliness will exist,” said the Buddha. The Buddhist Scriptures When the Buddha spoke to his followers, he wanted to illustrate the duality of human existence. The aforementioned quote emphasizes that different emotions and various phenomena are the two faces of the same reality. Buddhism is a […]
Running out of time I was enjoying the spring break mellowing out with Robert Langdon books and movies. A week later, on Friday, my friend called me. He proposed to go for a movie. I immediately agreed for I had no plans for the Friday revelries. “I’ll get the tickets, be at City Centre at […]
I am multi-tasking: I chopping cucumber for green salad, talking to my mother, and waiting for my lunch to arrive on the table. Suri catwalks through the door and announces her arrival. I don’t pay heed to her callings and continue chopping, talking and waiting. Suri rubs her head against my hanging legs. She is […]