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Candle in the night!
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it--Bertolt Brecht For a generation that has grown-up without knowing Safdar Hashmi, it is important to write about his pa…
The enchanting world of water lilies!
Fully grounded in the earth, aspiring toward the divine, blooming from within toward the light. The water lily is the flower of the underworld-the place of creation! All through my childhood, I hav…
The frugal billionaires!
"Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it"-Jim Rohn We enjoy reading about how Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, lives in a modes…
A modern day interpretation of Mahabharata!
One of the biggest epics known to mankind, the Mahabharata is a vast treasure of knowledge and wisdom. It is said in the ancient texts, that after the end of the Mahabharatha War, a Youth went to th…
Shivoham!
The Maha Shivratri festival always reminds me of my stay in Varanasi & the frenetic fervour with which this festival is celebrated in "Bhole Baba ki Nagari". Located on the banks of the holy Gan…
Oakland. 1989.
This is a short story about Huey. P Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther for Self-Defense Party. Over almost a decade, the organisation sent shockwaves around America, arming themselves agai…