Arms crossed he gazed intently as the aircraft took to the sky Too shocked to even mull; numbed to even wonder why; Now every recollection of Ash's face Would unmistakably trigger a grimace. (Word Count: 33) Courtesy of Sammi Cox Weekend Writing Prompt#109
Month: July 2019
A Night for Chili Sauce
(Image Credit: Roger Bultot) Call it morbid coincidence or term it a contrivance of fate. But the setting could not have been more prosaic yet so profound. When the old security guard half staggered-half ambled towards the square, the damage was already done. The two shots that pierced the stillness of the night had found … Continue reading A Night for Chili Sauce
Gun Island – Amitav Ghosh
An antiquarian book dealer in Brooklyn, a Bengali folklore of a Merchant trying to escape the wrath of a Snake Goddess named Manasa Devi, an articulate and erudite Italian scholar trying to come to grips with a personal tragedy and a determined environmental activist steadfast in her resoluteness to save marine life from the dangerous … Continue reading Gun Island – Amitav Ghosh
To the Victor, Not all the Spoils
(Photo by Blair Fraser on Unsplash) The site of the wreckage had attained a degree of holiness that few shrines could boast of or compete with. And so it should rightfully be. The mangled, twisted and convoluted remains of the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt represented more than a mere relic of the past. It had disintegrated in the air … Continue reading To the Victor, Not all the Spoils
The Road 2 The Future – Glimps East Forward
An extremely ambivalent book that attempts to explain the Hubris of the Middle East that led to its relinquishing early civilization advantages to the West. The pioneers of Cuneiform system of writing and the populace that birth the cradle of civilization is now a detritus of civil war and internecine strife. What might have been … Continue reading The Road 2 The Future – Glimps East Forward
Climate Change? LIGHTS OUT ASH!
(Image Credit: Dale Rogerson) All it takes is for one fundamental epiphany to transform the mundane into the magical. Ash was know for such bursts of metamorphic thinking. One such act lit up what otherwise would have reduced a topical debate to a draconian debate. "We have plugged into the Ozone for breathing, into the … Continue reading Climate Change? LIGHTS OUT ASH!
The Ash Discovery
(Image Credit: Crispina Kemp) Simple paths can trigger complex memories. Memories that are a kaleidoscope of myriad shapes - straight, winding, crooked, curved, steep and wide. As the sun blazed overhead, Venky set out on his customary walk along the narrow pathway wedged between a grassy mound. "Isn't this such a beautiful sight?" Ash had … Continue reading The Ash Discovery
10 JUDGEMENTS THAT CHANGED INDIA – ZIA MODY
The Indian judicial landscape is a veritable kaleidoscope of the profound and the petty. An accumulated debris of pronounced verdicts spanning more than 7 post-independence decades hides within its messy confines, precocious pearls as well as a phalanx of perfidies. While there have been decisions that have influenced the very societal progression in a positive … Continue reading 10 JUDGEMENTS THAT CHANGED INDIA – ZIA MODY
The Excavator & Ash
"Oi be careful you dickhead! We don't want a disaster on our bloody hands " yelled Krish in ferocious voice that did not bother masking its fury. "I have seen more inflammable stuff than this, the most dangerous of all being love" retorted Venky in a barely audible murmur scratching his head with fingers caked with mud … Continue reading The Excavator & Ash
RIP HEGEMONY
(Image Credit: J Hardy Carroll) The stifling hot air was accompanied a stillness which sucked out any hopes of even a slender breeze. There was nary a mild movement that would make the Stars & Stripes to at least flutter. "In sync with the times" reflected Obarck Barama from his office. “When neighbours are walled … Continue reading RIP HEGEMONY