(Image Credit: Holly Mandarich at http://www.unsplash.com) A wander luster driven towards redemption by groundhogs of compulsion. Recursive distractions programmed to elicit an eclectic chaos of clicks and clacks. A complete obliteration of the duality between man and machine as every medium becomes the ultimate message. A mudlark in search of salvation, a lost soul scavenging … Continue reading The Forager
Month: November 2021
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty – Patrick Radden Keefe
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) According to estimates provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, close to 50,000 people in the United States of America, died in the year 2019 alone on account of opioid related overdoses. A majority of those deaths were triggered by overconsumption of prescription pain relievers, heroin as well as synthetic opioids … Continue reading Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty – Patrick Radden Keefe
Anderson v Agent
(Image Credit: Danilo Alvesd on http://www.unsplash.com) We have moved beyond the choices offered by pills, red and blue Hope offered by Mr, Anderson is not even a last vestige to cling on to The agents have infested the world and fighters so very few. (Word Count: 38) Sammi Cox Weekend Prompt #236
The Other
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Collated from four lectures delivered by the universally acclaimed Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński, “The Other”, is an eloquent, impassioned and civilised plea for recognising humanity for what it is: diverse, heterogenous and unamenable for stereotyping. Kapuściński urges his readers to shed entrenched dogmas that come with the baggage of Eurocentrism, and to … Continue reading The Other
Reflection
(Image Credit: Ivana Cajina on http://www.unsplash.com) Hold your conscience up to a mirror unseen Weigh all the foibles against deeds deemed virtuous Introspect on the results in a vein transparent and keen Learn the lessons imparted by life, hard, painful but sumptuous A leader who fails to empower is a figure in ridicule A master … Continue reading Reflection
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland – Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Image Courtesy: http://www.amazon.com) “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed everything else is public relations” - George Orwell Often times, the most memorable reportage has at its apotheosis, the discovery of voices that are otherwise drowned in a sea of obscurity, and relegated to the confines of oblivion. More likely than not, … Continue reading Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland – Ryszard Kapuscinski
What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year by Charles Finch
(Image Courtesy: Publishers Weekly) “North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, who dies about three or four times a year, may be dead again, according to Reuters”, reads an entry made in the month of August 2020 in Charles Finch’s part polemical and part philosophical ruminations, constituting his upcoming book. “What Just Happened” is a poignant … Continue reading What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year by Charles Finch
DOOFUS
(Image Courtesy: Dan Meyers at http://www.unsplash.com) In an empire of simpletons, found anointed a Doofus as king As fickle minded as monkeys that from tree to tree, gaily swing He had a Minister cut out from the same cloth Dimwitted and lethargic, the subjects would have preferred even a sloth Blooper after blooper the duo … Continue reading DOOFUS
A Whiff of Faulkner
(Image Credit: Brandon Lopez at Unsplash.com) Musty, dusty and cobwebs' complacent host Here's raising a glass to every Vellichor in toast Refuge for flipping Orwell at leisure and Huxley at peace Where Conrad and Faulkner find themselves perfectly at ease The owner, withered, wise and calm Ah! Used bookstores thou art a mighty balm (Word … Continue reading A Whiff of Faulkner