Nowadays, in social media there is a new genre of video title crops up … “They are not telling you …”. Yes, clickbait – but why? Why there is a sense of public paranoia? Why is this sense of being fooled? Why is this fear of being duped? I have a relative who is notorious…

Sometimes I feel I am suspended in emptiness. Yes, through every interaction with loved ones, through every emotive gesture that put minds in motion – what I feel is an empty hum of nothingness. Sometimes it is painful, sometimes not even that. Does an ocean feel? The violent sea storm is as real as the…

At times, your existence is the cross you are condemned to bear. Sure you can scream in agony but no help is there nearby enough to pick you up. So, my friend, scream, cry and curse a little. Then dust yourself up, find a dead rock and pull yourself up. And yes, alone, for it…

Do they feel different? No. Are they different? Yes. Well, grateful people carries a lighter heart when its time to leave.

I have four buddies in my home. They came when they were very small. Now they are at the cusp of their youth. They swim around most of the day, but make sure i feed them every morning enough. Else, they make such a splash! Yes, they are fish. They also make sure to add…

Why should I exist? Well, if I ask the question and assign a little serious value to it, isn’t it good enough reason?

The poem has withered away leaving its suits on my boneMay the flowers find me, then,and weep gentlybesides my lonely gravestone. May your claps not find me in the market of my blood and flesh may I never ever need to show my tears to you streaming down my wrinkled face. Yes, everything ends and…

The other day, I visited an old fortress complex that 250 years ago had become a site for bloodbaths. History works in a twisted way. The marks of the canonballs still haunts us with the imagined memory of people whose names only appear in the archeological records. The walls, the pillars, the cemetery are all…

Often I am the most patient person to someone, and the most impatient to someone else, simultaneously. Everyone already knows what I am thinking, and hence nobody asks me. Question is, what can I do but to feel completely insignificant and invisible? Yes, I know our perceptions of others are often our own shadow. But…

I have recently got a bunch of “well-wishers”. They keep telling me what not to do when nobody else is doing, how not to feel about outrageous things, why should I rather stay at the ivory pedestal, how not to have life and how to be modest and polite and how to be an Ideal…

“In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose, is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.” — Charles Spencer Chaplin, “My Autobiography” Sometimes, The cheerfulness is the only raft…

“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention” – Sean O’Connell, “The secret life of Walter Mitty” My world, as I see it day in and day out now, screams for credit. Before a job gets done, a cost benefit analysis is a mandate now. But in the midst of the cacophony of this wholesale marketplace, humanity…

I am a pathological puller of pushes! Let me explain. You must have seen those transparent doors which swings open only in one direction. They put up “Push” and “Pull” signs in two sides of those doors. I push from “Pull” side and vice versa, almost without exceptions leading to riotous laughters from both sides…

While both are subjective, biased and ad-hoc set of actions that need to be enforced against the natural impulse of a person, morality applies to others and ethics to themselves. Hence, you find people preaching morality almost non-stop without being even a little ethical. Ethics is hard self-control. Morality is needed by people with low…

“If diamonds were as plentiful as pebbles we shouldn’t stoop to pick them up.” A. G. Gardiner (“On the letter writing”) All know that little is good – scarcity of resources increases the perceived value. But who decides what does the “little” mean? Is “never” the littlest “little” or should we make an exception for…

———————————-—— 1 ———————————-Long, long time ago, in a far, faraway land there existed a Prince. A happy Prince. A princely Prince, you see. Adored by the gentry, appreciated by peasantry and lionized by friends, he was very helpful to everyone. Well, a helpful and happy prince, you know. Every man wants be him and every…

There’s a rhythm in rush these daysWhere the lights don’t move and the colors don’t fadeLeaves you empty with nothing but dreamsIn a world gone shallowIn a world gone lean Sometimes there’s things a man cannot knowThe gears won’t turn and the leaves won’t growThere’s no place to run and no gasolineEngine won’t turn and…

Excerpt from the A naturalist’s guide to the Butterflies of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. A few butterflies build a rough cocoon, that is, an outer shell of silken thread or other material. generally, they simply attach themselves to a twig or other firm support, sticking themselves onto it. At their real…

A Broomstick. – Needed by everyone, an indispensable item for health and happiness.– Loved by none- if doubtful, I recommend calling someone as broomstick and watch them react.– The moment it stops providing enough value, gets replaced in a drop of a hat and is gotten rid of the remnants as quickly as possible, probably…

Where I work, there exists a wall. In front of the coffee shop a half built brick wall with a half-assed graffiti and a big, uneven, complex-looking hole. Well, you could have called it an arch too but “walls” are in fashion now, and hence let’s call it a wall- big, beautiful, broken wall. Behind…