Dismantling my heart
I recently finished reading a small novel by German poet and novelist Hermann Hesse. He is famously known for his spiritual novel ‘Siddhartha’ and this is what my article will be centred upon. Siddhartha by its name suggests a novel upon Gautama Buddha, the enlightened leader, speaker and often revered and venerated to be God …
Must I begin this defence by quoting the famous Johnson’s[1] adage— that praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity? But India works differently. Here, usually, praises are placed upon the doubtful laps of contemporaries and antiquity, except for Indus valley, is always …
A Cambridge Nincompoop Life is brimming with miseries, and your only duty is to throw a bucketful out of it. Author Narayan’s feet strode forward while his gait seemed to have an apprehensive haste, which, from an aerial view gave a reflection of an uninvited intruder whose limbs are ready to abscond. He wore …
Commuting between their homes in Santa Cruz and Pure Atria’s[i] headquarter, in a crawling car, amidst an avalanche of honking vehicles waiting and scratching their ways to move out of the snarled up route, would hardly be considered as a delicate and professional sphere for Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to discuss about the idea …
From some far-off place of distant, dark and dreary land where yellow dense shrubs had stopped its growth, a slave was heard humming the psalm of David. He stood below a plundered tree, with eyes burning bright and wore a ragged, tattered white cloth lacerated from his navel. To put it rather simply, the spring …
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It is, perhaps, a noting phenomenon of redundancy on the part of BJP of getting back on the horse after almost falling off the track. In 2014, it was the controversial connection of Ram Mandir and Ram Janmbhoomi that fuelled and scurried the sails of BJP’s fidgeting ship to a safe shore. The 2011 Lokpal …
What shall I tell you of the spirit of the time that you are already aware of? Shall we make this whole articulation as precise as we can? Lets just talk about where I live. Lets just talk about what I feel. Its jesting that when some Major intellectuals talk about decolonization of mind, they …
Vanquished in the game of love and hoard of winning the world, a dipsomaniac, fiddling, laughing, crying, and tussling with the folks around; blubbering the words that never came and those that will be his last. Richard Parker was a man of dignity until he met the one who stole his heart away. A very …
Amidst the incumbent Male patriarchy, shouts for Feminism and Emancipation, there emerged a women power that shattered the unshakable glass ceiling, or so what I believe. There were several thrusts and poke by the Indian women Badminton legends like Saina Nehwal and P. V. Sindhu but this day witnessed the last catastrophic thrust, shattering the …
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The top 5 book suggestions for you to read this month are:- Animal Farm- George Orwell Reason: There is no one else other than Geroge Orwell who could have so beautifully written the vicissitudes of the human race and its greed for wealth and power. Human vagaries act as flammable substance when they get into …
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