At times, it’s literally hard to define and detect pain. Pain can roll up to the surface. Else it can remain raged within. Its manifestation…
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Unbounded Patience
We are all in a rush. We want to be first. We cannot wait. Waiting is a national anathema for us. We jump over queues.…
View More Unbounded PatienceA Queer Study
The individual is a Human Textbook. Research Stuff. Emotional Repertoire. Rational Bank…..and what not! And Life is a colossal composition of all these, fashioning its…
View More A Queer StudyFading Out
“Each night put Kashmir in your dreams,” he says, then touches me, his hands crusted with snow, whispers, “I have been cold a long, long…
View More Fading OutEnduring Memory
“Patient seems to be fine now. He feels the pain and is able to recollect,” the doctor said to a senior attending nurse. “Sir, sorry…
View More Enduring MemoryThe villain in us
They say the meanness of people should be taken as their madness for otherwise it becomes impossible to retain your own sanity. Meanness means malice,…
View More The villain in usRevisiting Ourselves
It’s the beginning of the end—the Fall. Autumn has started receding into shriveling winter. It’s yet another instance of change. Time to re-think as we…
View More Revisiting OurselvesIs Justice Conditional?
Amartya Sen writes in his bestseller The Idea of Justice—“There are remediable injustices around us which we want to eliminate”. For Sen, the idea of…
View More Is Justice Conditional?Face the music
“Allah will surely reward you for this concern. It is certainly for a good cause. Though I am a retired man, here is my modest…
View More Face the musicZameer of Afghanistan
A huge thud and Zameer whisks away. The cracker he fired on the stairs of the flat he puts in, jerked the residents of the…
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