Explaining Abortion To Kids

No matter how much you try and shelter your children they will inevitably hear and see things long before…

Encountering Bahubali: The Conclusion’s Devasena: A Revisit to Sati’s Introduction in Amish Tripathi’s The Shiva Trilogy

Punjab in your rear-view mirror

Growing up in a far-flung, prosperity-starved Bengal of the seventies and eighties Punjab was something that I perceived either through the veil of history and mythology or through limited interactions with the Sikh community of transporters and traders. They were seen to…

Validate me

Are my feelings ok?

The dictionary defines val·i·date as:
Check or prove the validity or accuracy…

The green revolution

There is a revolution rising up 
right now in this land;
with enough food to go around
deliverance is at hand.

Ditty

Tradition calls 
Small windfalls 
The work
Of luck;
Crass stupidity 
Generates jealousy 
And neglects
The facts.

Philip Roth — Indignation | Book Review

This book gave me some weird feelings. During the Korean war Marcus Messner, a youngster…

The Moon

Not only do I love living this life that I personally get to experience, but I treasure the fact that, as a human being, I get to share the same sorts of experiences with others. We all have so much in common in this world. With every rotation of our shared planet all of us are blessed with an array of sights…

Harry Potter & the Little Bookworm

or that time JK Rowling totally changed my perception of reading.

My heart’s a boat

My heart’s a boat 
And love is an ocean 
Whereon I float
In fluid emotion.

Drip to drop

Drip
to drop
depthless
rounds 
heavy-bottomed, 
suspended, 
poised 
for plunge.

Hearth

Hearth
Warms draft 
From cold attic, 
Heart over head.