My day of inspiration at the PWLive
If you have had one of those rare delusions that you are writing OK, you should attend a writer’s event and meet other writers. You will know how serious people take their craft and you will also get to know how well people write and how committed they are. I had such an experience today as I attended the PWLive event organized by the Poets & … Continue reading My day of inspiration at the PWLive
We should never shoot our ability to think
Dyab Abou Jahjah is a Columnist @Destandaard and he tweeted “I am not Charlie, I am Ahmed the dead cop. Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so. ” This tweet is very important and should be shared because as individuals we should never shoot our ability to think… yes we are all slaves to our emotions at times, … Continue reading We should never shoot our ability to think
How to respond to your faceless and spineless critics
So there is this one person who is so pissed off with me. I am assuming he is angry because of my posts, I would not want to guess his religious faction (but you can guess from the tweet), except that he is not a Muslim…. apparently he stays anonymous in twitter…. anyway the person is a Malayali which I know from one of his … Continue reading How to respond to your faceless and spineless critics
Charlie Hebdo, Cartoons and Religious intolerance
Sometimes we cannot directly change the way things happen in our world, but after every shocking incident we are left with questions, some we have answers some we do not, some we think we have and some we need help with. Today when I woke up to the news of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the first thing that came to my mind is “They have … Continue reading Charlie Hebdo, Cartoons and Religious intolerance
Why we should talk about religion when we talk about the Peshawar attack
I am posting this to be fair to a comment I put on Facebook and bring a point that no religion should be above criticism sorry if I am being too blunt here…. I posted this as comment on a friend’s post where he shared Richard Dawkin’s “explanation to peshawar attack” and since it is controversial, I think it will be unfair if I do … Continue reading Why we should talk about religion when we talk about the Peshawar attack
FYI – PK is not an Atheist’s movie
I liked PK but with all the hue and cry on PK I want to draw your attention to the fact that PK is not an atheist’s movie. I also want to draw your attention to a 2012 movie in malayalam ‘Prabhuvinte Makkal‘ (Sons of Prabhu)… while PK never said God did not exist, here is a movie that said just that. So FYI P.K is … Continue reading FYI – PK is not an Atheist’s movie
‘Mubi in a Netflix world’ by a Netflix user
I have been a Netflix user for a long time now, watching great deal of movies on it. At anytime I have around 400 movies in my list to watch. Many have been there for so long that I forgot. The reason Netflix has been so attractive to me is because at a time I watch more than one movie. Meaning I need not necessarily complete … Continue reading ‘Mubi in a Netflix world’ by a Netflix user
The beginning of the end
Then one day it all stopped coming the poem, the story, the dream the clouds, everything as if they never existed for me And then I heard about that flightless poem that lost its wings in some old story I also heard the story of a butterfly that could never escape its caterpillar existence I saw the clouds that came down and started walking on … Continue reading The beginning of the end
How to feel complete in the new year
How does someone feel complete? On December 30th one more day and you step into a new year. Your one year is complete and you used up another year of your life. Do you feel complete? what does complete mean? Does it mean different things for different people? Over the years I have heard people say they feel incomplete, often as a realization to something … Continue reading How to feel complete in the new year
I wish to be free to be lost
I have journeyed in language and often lost my way between words been stranger to some of them, yet found profound meaning even in the tiniest of them….. I have also journeyed in thought and lost my way trying to figure out the direction in which I was going…. I have been a third person in my own mind have fallen in love, disagreed, fought … Continue reading I wish to be free to be lost
Vinod Narayan 