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Waves: Of the melody and the maelstrom, it writes its own story
October 31, 2025, 2:29 PM IST
Its decent is amorphous. Far behind, of what I see and from where I see, a gush of waves gloriously piles on the other. There is an incorporeal birth; an accession of conscious rising high…
October 31, 2025, 2:29 PM IST
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The Sikh Maharaja and the Songster
October 16, 2025, 2:18 PM IST
He is dressed organically at the Met Gala 2025 and the exuberance of his attire is undeniable; looks like a pristine God has arrived from heaven. He walks to impress, carrying an unequivocal pulchritude. He…
October 16, 2025, 2:18 PM IST
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Menopausing. A conversation…
August 18, 2025, 1:43 PM IST
The pelvic griddle in place, the spine attached to it is slightly bent over the table with hands cupped around the cup of coffee. The cochlea activity of the ear acts balanced as there is…
August 18, 2025, 1:43 PM IST
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She is an Air Hostess but with her own beguiled silence!
August 11, 2025, 5:37 PM IST
She gives an unresting glance, walks scurried as if the hour of reckoning has arrived, and time and tide wait for no one. She instantly transitions through the prosperous smile to a nonchalant gaze, moves…
August 11, 2025, 5:37 PM IST
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If one has to choose between the Guacamole and Coriander Dip!
July 25, 2025, 3:14 PM IST
It’s the first time I am about to taste the Guacamole toast, the dip spread on the bread looks like a filamentous algae on the river bed. I don’t like the look of it; it’s…
July 25, 2025, 3:14 PM IST
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The power of smidgen Sindoor
June 12, 2025, 12:36 AM IST
Sindoor is amorphous! When a married woman scales it from the top of the forehead to the middle of the skull along the tiny hair parting, it becomes a valley; flowing through it an impassioned…
June 12, 2025, 12:36 AM IST
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Guru Gobind Singh—What’s the purpose of life?
April 17, 2025, 11:21 AM IST
On the auspicious occasion of Vaisakhi, we remember Guru Gobind Singh for instilling in his Sikhs to leave behind the superficial ego and understand of ‘who we are’. ‘Ego’ is wicked; it does not let…
April 17, 2025, 11:21 AM IST
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Tales of tea
April 3, 2025, 1:42 PM IST
The tea simmers in the fertile cup, brimming with joy to cuddle the delinquency, is clasped by the lines of the palm foretelling the incessant urge to live. The smoke rises to the nostrils carrying…
April 3, 2025, 1:42 PM IST
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What makes the ghosts disappear?
January 16, 2025, 3:54 PM IST
I barely manage to watch half the movie that it gives rise to this ghastly ‘ghost grotesquerie’ in my mind, and I feel possessed. Immediately, I shut the TV off and sit like a clogged…
January 16, 2025, 3:54 PM IST
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Diwali Gifts—do they have an expiry date?
November 7, 2024, 3:24 PM IST
The statue of ‘Buddha’ sitting immaculately on the golden slab surrounded by lapidary of coarse rocks is finally taken out of the box. Its position is a bit tilted; the newfangled ‘Buddha’ otherwise cross-legged in…
November 7, 2024, 3:24 PM IST
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Dusshera in a new avataar; Raavan looks unusually pale and small!
October 30, 2024, 10:21 PM IST
The saturnine effigy of ‘Raavan’ stands small and scuzzy. It no longer looks able-boiled as was years before and stands at one corner conspicuously mocked by the children of its grotesqueness; in maudlin he remembers…
October 30, 2024, 10:21 PM IST
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Is it the Sun burning or the religious Monologue?
October 18, 2024, 3:47 PM IST
Religion is a perfectly ordained catalyst for growth and survival but its adamancy routing on moral rectitude squawks a recherché that makes the ‘men’ and ‘women’ on this Earth clogged with prescriptive. ‘Don’t bully the…
October 18, 2024, 3:47 PM IST
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The Moon hanging by the Karvachauth thread!
October 7, 2024, 4:41 PM IST
How do we perceive Moon here? An impressionistic patriarch laden with ego-centric blotches volleying the sky, a woman can hardly resist or, A lampent illuminating conceited immortality passing on a cadence of long life, Or…
October 7, 2024, 4:41 PM IST
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The Egg-litarian economy!
September 25, 2024, 3:53 PM IST
Eggs are priceless! An egg in the market costs around Rs 13 but the amount seems less compared to its ingenious use. We hardly talk about the confounded sentiments attached to it; to eat or…
September 25, 2024, 3:53 PM IST
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Unhappy times are here again: India and its happiness quotient
April 5, 2023, 3:45 PM IST
What quantifies happiness? An abstract conjuring of the parted lips or the visceral laughter that rings to the often obnoxious razzle-dazzle of life. The annual UN – Sponsored Index does not think so! Its gives…
April 5, 2023, 3:45 PM IST
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Why preparing for death is important?
March 18, 2023, 9:36 AM IST
We dismiss death as if it does not exist; theories to live life are many but to embrace death are negotiable. The day we are born, we see life and subsume it. Everything it beholds;…
March 18, 2023, 9:36 AM IST
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The Sikh factor in re-defining Congress
November 11, 2021, 2:31 PM IST
June 05, 1984 is still the darkest cloud in the unblemished horizon for the Sikh community. The, then, Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi ratified an artillery of military trucks and armaments inside the Sanctum Sanatorium…
November 11, 2021, 2:31 PM IST
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From puberty to menopause
October 28, 2021, 3:33 PM IST
The transition from puberty to menopause, though imperceptible, makes a woman susceptible to changes in her body and life. A girl, still at the nascent stage of her life, flippantly rocking the rubber doll and…
October 28, 2021, 3:33 PM IST
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Diwali—A Jashn, Utsav or a Celebration
October 25, 2021, 2:12 PM IST
Diwali is a celebration of life, devoid of religious prejudices, cultural insinuations and moral policing. Predominantly a Hindu festival, Diwali exudes a spirit of bonhomie and togetherness. After the Hindu God Ram defeated the ten-headed…
October 25, 2021, 2:12 PM IST
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My name is Khan and I am bereft of belongingness
October 21, 2021, 1:23 PM IST
The name “Khan” is concomitant to the ubiquitous Muslim presence all over the world. In India, we may address our Muslim brethren as “Khan Sahib” or a sobriquet of “Khan,” though there is no dearth…
October 21, 2021, 1:23 PM IST
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