People are not spiders but they spin webs webs for the future in which they will be trapped sometime…. This web spinning is a present day balancing art… I call it ‘a dream killer’ The relentless pursuit of a future entrapment But that perception should change…… Because you cannot create a future that you want to live in, if the present you are in is … Continue reading The Spider in You; Kill It
Oh! I have lost those poem pens That poetic scribbles that hardly meant anything and had made words wonder what they really meant…. But I have some more ink left and I can fill it in my heart and beat a poem out of it… Continue reading Beat A Poem
The border was pretty quiet…. Not a gunshot for the past one hour…. Not a sign of any light, any movement whatsoever…. “Are they asleep…?” he asked to his fellow comrade… “May be they are…. It is tiresome and they might know by now that they are fighting a losing battle…” he said to himself… It has been a long one month since the tension … Continue reading War front Pictures – 365 Flash Fiction #14
It did not sound to him as cheating… He was going to say ‘No’…. And he knew a lot of people who have a problem with ‘No’. No, Not with hearing it, but saying it…. Kind of the yes people who cannot say ‘No’… they commit suicide every time they say ‘Yes’… He always wondered what is the problem that people had with ‘No’…. Hearing … Continue reading Crossing The Bridge Alone – 365 Flash Fiction #13
I had not read Albert Camus before; but last week I got “The Stranger” from the library… a masterpiece on the Philosophy of the absurd… As we follow the title character ‘Meursault’ attending his mother’s funeral, committing a murder, standing trial and awaiting verdict we are made to think over and over again… about Life, Death, Correctness, wrong doing, the world, justice, friendship, love…. and … Continue reading You Should Read Camus’ ‘The Stranger’ If you have not yet
English is a world language, and everyone who speaks it thinks it is theirs, they say the world does business in that language.. well that is not true… not everywhere… there are successful people who don’t speak English…. and there are beggars and absolute failures who speak the language… so English language is not a trait for success, it is the person The fact is English is … Continue reading British or American? – 365 Flash Fiction #12
One thing is clear, one can enjoy a movie even if one does not understand it completely…. Johnny Depp-Morgan Freeman Starer ‘Transcendence’ is a futuristic movie that looks at singularity, Artificial Intelligence and so on… all of which I have pretty low knowledge on… but I loved the movie…. Well I don’t think I have seen any Johnny Depp or Morgan Freeman movie that I did … Continue reading Transcendence Movie Review – Will make you rethink the term existence
It was a morning when they realized that the milkman is missing…. It is true that evenings would not be the best time when they will know something like this… though he remembered that before they bought a refrigerator the milkman used to come twice in the day… mornings and evenings… There were two reasons… one the refrigerator helped them to store milk, secondly they … Continue reading The Missing Milkman – 365 Flash Fiction #11
What can I say…. that little girl has grown up…. I wish we could rewind time… but that is one thing that none of us can… however bad we want it…. so today as you turn 15 I want to tell you…. time, we never get it back… From believing in tooth fairies and Santa Claus you have grown up to believe in you and … Continue reading Happy Birthday Rhea – Smile, Be Yourself and Dream Big; the clouds will reach to you..
My footprints want to walk backwards and meet with the sand before the waves can wipe them; but I have moved too far away from the beach… Continue reading Footthoughts
