An artist’s chase – seeking you, a poem
Further I went, farther you seemed from my reach. Chasing your impressions on the beach, bench in the park or the empty corners in my library – I could (not) see; I wasn't seeing at all! And you, like…
Ponder Awhile by Mohit Misra – Book Review
Indian English poetry has been a very close subject to me. Right from the beginning of my undergraduate years, I have invested my time in reading, understanding and occasionally writing poetry. In short, if you can notice, poetry entices…
Maya, the blindfolded by Prasad Bag – Book Review
Maya – the name suggests too much. However, we are not discussing Maya in the way it has been discussed in our scriptures. Here, this is about a novel by Prasad Bag – Maya, the Blindfolded: Her Mistake? She Trusted…
Let’s be & Let it be!
Unknown paths, uncertain thoughts and unseen faces add more colour to life, wisdom and traces to achieve new hearths to burn yourself up and salvage new worlds, new land! Night rumbles Alok Mishra Saturday, July 2, 2022
How Leaders Decide by Harjeet Khanduja – Book Review
My romance with business books, books on leadership, and books on making it big is old. I dreamt of being an entrepreneur when the conventional career path seemed predictable and problematic to me. In the journey from a dreamer to…
The Mystery Mountains by Aurijit Ganguli – Book Review
Hello readers! I am back once again with a book that I have recently read. It's Aurijit Ganguli's second novel The Mystery Mountains. The author is back after a successful debut back in 2020 with The Shambala Sutra. The first…
Hold the bull by its horn – a poem
Jargon we call life evades more into obscurity with every single strife we make in the elusive direction to hold this bull by its horn. Alok Mishra during a meeting with his research supervisor at Nava Nalanda Mahavihara April 4,…
Dewdrop and Banyan Tree by Ramachandran Rajasekharan: Book Review
Ramachandran Rajasekharan is a poet of repute, substance, emotions and has the art of poetry within him in plenty. I can say this safely after reading his debut poetry collection Dewdrop and Banyan Tree. This poetry collection has fifty poems.…
Kashi, Ganga, a Dip and the Journey
A holy dip in Ganga, that began with reluctance, ended with funeral pyres met with no resistance for the acceptance of truth – momentarily the emotions of transcendence overpowered the hazy intellect soaked out and out in worldly glimmers.…
The Powerful, The Powerless by Shiva Dhuli – Book Review
I am impressed with the novelist who has written this wonderful work, The Powerful, The Powerless. Shiva Dhuli, the author, has done his best in terms of imagination, setting up the storyline, developing the protagonist and the antagonist and also…