Shiva | A Poem
Shiva Shiva destroy 'me' please. Burn 'my & me' to unseen ashes and free 'nothingness' to mingle with YOU. This 'I' needs the Ganges you decorate in your mystifying Jata. Let the holy water wash the ashes, before returning to…
Colourless Night – A Poem
Colourless Night Once again I see the occident and the wide horizon, ready to swallow the ruddy ball of light and melt that with the ocean's water. Along the shore, with each step I am getting a year back in…
Burn: Love, Passion, Hate
Psychological drama novels are getting in trend in the contemporary Indian fiction and undoubtedly, I find it a good signal for the readers as well as the literature. We already have had enough of 'usual romance' and Bollywood novels. A…
Is Literature Propaganda? An Attempt to Answer
In most of these days, I was thinking one thing constantly. Are there the literary pieces which are but propaganda? It's not a simple question because extensive research and evidence would be required to come to a concrete conclusion. And…
To Kill a Mockingbird
Yes, Harper Lee! I know what you want to suggest - whites are bad and they are racist at times. They come from a country which did not let the women vote for a long time. They come from…
Rafflesia The Banished Princess
Some of the fiction pieces are not meant to be mere fiction and they extend beyond being ones... they become philosophy, psychology, history and even autobiography of many people at once. I am lucky to have read a number of…
The Protectors of Aesner
Any person in the world must wonder how the messiah would look like. Every person in the world must acknowledge it he or she must have heard the stories which feature some kind of messiah who just swings around, does…
April is no more Cruellest
April wasn’t that cruel this year and ended perfectly. Yes, the warmth of March turned into unbearable heat; still, it was lesser than the feat which people achieved in April. April wasn’t that unholy this year, and said goodbye fairly.…
Who is a True Reader?
The question is - who is a reader in the truest sense? Is a person reader who reads five novels a day? Is another person the reader who reads only two fictions a year? Am I a reader because I…
The Quest of the Sparrows
I had a misconception a few days ago that every author with a 'Chetan Bhagat' background serves to the literature a 'Chetan Bhagat' class. However, like I said, it was a misconception only. To be honest, I did not read…