Fear and Pride. How often do these two words go together? Like two best friends? I haven’t seen many such pairs. When fear enters a mind, it drives everything out. And when pride makes it in, it usurps everything inside. A fearing mind is never proud and a proud mind is never fearsome. But during … More Heroic Conflicts in Chennai Floods
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry My rating: 5 of 5 stars The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Flipping through the pages, my heart leaped many times; those waves bearing the ring of countenance were from still stream but the ones with ripples of accusation roared thunder. Accusation? Accusation hurled towards whom? … More Book Review: Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (2001)
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal My rating: 5 of 5 stars Existence. Tearing Existence. Endearing Existence. Suppressed Existence. Spirited Existence. Delusional Existence. Resuscitating Existence. Multiple Existence. Solitary Existence. Existence. Overriding all the comprehensible and perplexing spaces enjoining the various uneven points of existence in the larger lattice of congruent existence, I have pushed … More Book Review: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (1983)
The voices are numb and the noise so dim, chances of movement are oh so slim, As I imagine It to wriggle out somehow; and bravely take a last intrepid vow. It musters every ounce of strength, and peppers up with a ferrous will; It gears feverishly to step forward… But hell, the limbs stare, still. Puzzled, … More That’s the BEAT, Heart!
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” Ah! Mr. Wilde made some really wild statements but beneath the wildness, lurked a truth iterated to death but not comprehended still – happiness; that’s the single most thing we wish in life. In every thing we do, in every step we take, in bewildered … More The Code is HAPPINESS!
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