Blue Wounds
There are blue wounds in my body that cry out loud at night…in sounds that only I can hear… I pacify them in my sleep.. and they tell me stories that even I have forgotten….. They tell me that there is too much bloodshed in this world that blood from my wounds are not ready to flow out.. The Blood they say is turning into … Continue reading Blue Wounds
Balibo – The Story People Should Know
“It’s over, It’s over Roger… The Indonesians will come and they will take this land and no one will even know we existed…” These are the words of José Ramos-Horta (played by Oscar Issac) the secretary of foreign affairs in Timor as he lies gasping for breath after a fist fight with the Australian Journalist Roger East played by Anthony LaPaglia… The Year is 1975 … Continue reading Balibo – The Story People Should Know
Neruda and our six year old
Yesterday after the Halloween “trick or treats” and after my scheduled daily calls from work at night as I sit down to read a few lines… Our younger one who was still awake (courtesy to his afternoon Nap) asks me “can you read me a big book” Thinking he should be referring to the size of the book I tell him “yes go get the … Continue reading Neruda and our six year old
Catch Up
You should feel the aroma of half written poems from which hope drips into illegible nothingness… You should hear the crackling of scattered leaves in overcrowded graveyards… You should see the life trapped inside burning bodies as the soul is slowly poured into glasses filled with ice cubes… You should know that beneath every trembling hand there is a story of courage and of forgotten … Continue reading Catch Up
Societal diet
The fat society is getting ugly it should be put on a diet a diet of love, optimism caring, justice, education and equality….. It should stop the consumption of even the slightest amount of hatred, religious intolerance and corruption… The big problem is that this would mean a good part of the society will have to be banished from the society….. Continue reading Societal diet
The Meaning
There are words that cut deep into sentences forcing the meaning to flow out like blood; soaking the paper with imagination… without which reading would be pointless and meaningless… Continue reading The Meaning
Tree
Behind the tree there is a fruit hiding a seed so you can be fed Continue reading Tree
Strangers
You might not remember me, I had come in your dream once; I had begged you to wake up; but you chose to dream….. I woke up and waited for you You woke up and forgot your dream since then we have been strangers…. Continue reading Strangers
Humans
We humans such a rare species spending a whole lifetime learning to be human and dying ignorant Continue reading Humans
Problems, You and Everything Else
The agony of being right when you would have loved to be wrong The pain of not understanding the problem that makes the problem so problematic… Understanding that your problem is either of three… “you are the problem” “you don’t understand the problem” or simply “You don’t agree that there exists a problem” And then finally you will face the eternal problem of all.. What … Continue reading Problems, You and Everything Else
Vinod Narayan 