As I lay there looking at the stars… I thought of the countless men and women, who might have layed there the same way, looking at the sky and those twinkling stars Some of them in the not so distant past might have been like me escaping their roof for the sky Some long long ago into the unreachable past of my mind might have been … Continue reading The realities of walls and a roof
Yes that is how I want to call this case because Kerala is also my home state in India and this case is about the lack of value for human life. The case is that a millionaire Tobacco businessman who lives in one of the high profile luxury communities in Kerala rammed his Hummer on the guard and beat him with an iron rod because he delayed in opening the … Continue reading Punish Nisham – Kerala’s Case on the ‘Value for Human Life’
In the pages of a book we find, what we cannot see. we see, what we can only imagine. we imagine, what only we can create. we become the reader, the character, and more…. we become ourself, and more… So read……. Continue reading So Read
Become small; tiny The world can no more see you Become insignificant, trivial You won’t matter anymore to them Be incompetent, useless No one will bother to compete again Be alone; secluded People will stop connecting with you Be foolish; idiotic The world will stop advising you Be yourself, original And world will fire up to change you Continue reading We and our world
Philip Levine’s poems were a filled with graphics that made the voiceless heard. The imagery of Detroit, the factories and the labor. He painted pictures of sweat stuck to the coldness that blanketed an era. For generations to come readers will walk through Philip Levine’s words feeling those hands that held a lot of heavy life before the pen found its way through. Here is his “An Abandoned Factory, Detroit” The gates are chained, … Continue reading Philip Levine the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Dies at 85
The Alabama cop who encountered and threw down the 57 year old Suresh Bhai Patel under suspicion has been arrested. But SureshBhai is partially paralyzed. We can all understand how the family feels as we all have had our parents come here from India and gone for morning and evening walks and if something like this happens to us we know how devastating it can be. I … Continue reading Alabama Cops encountered and leaves a 57 year old Indian Grandfather Partially Paralyzed; What can we do as a community?
When the last year ended and this year started as a single human family in this world we faced some very terrible events of hatred and violence. I wrote about them and unleashed my agony and helplessness through my words for a few days after each event and then did not know what to do. I decided to take up a 30 day challenge to write one … Continue reading The 30 day Love Haiku Challenge
Three Muslim students in North Carolina were shot and killed; the details and motive are still surfacing but it is clear that the murderer Craig Hicks is an atheist or anti-theist. Since I identify myself as an atheist and a secular humanist, I am extremely saddened reading the news that the murderer is an atheist and the victims were religious. May be his anti-theist thoughts had nothing … Continue reading Can atheism instigate violence on a personal level?
All major parties in India roll their eyes in political disbelief because it should not have happened. A very new party with no political legacy, doctrine or specific religious support, how can they win. When they won election last time most parties attributed that as an accident, a fluke (and BJP blamed congress) but then this party AAP committed a never heard of and unpardonable mistake … Continue reading How can AAP win? Clearing the political disbelief
The AIB Knockout show has been in a lot of controversies. I saw the recording of it on YouTube. Did I like it? No I did not enjoy it. I felt they were using vulgarity for the sake of it and forgetting if it was indeed adding to the entertainment. They were competing on who can be more nasty. But should they be allowed to do it? … Continue reading AIB Knockout – Comedy or Vulgarity
Vinod Narayan 