(Photo by Valeriia Miller on Unsplash) 168 hours, 10,080 minutes and 604,800 seconds have gone by in what seems like a blur! We the acolytes to two seemingly innocuous yet omniscient hands of a clock go about our chores and ply our wares unheeding of the consequences birthed by the clock. But we still have … Continue reading Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 23rd July 2023
Freewheeling
Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 16th July 2023
(Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash) The acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates once said, "the mere passage of time makes us all exiles". Transitioning from hour to hour and day to day, humanity is an involuntary metronome of time travelers. Bound by its vice like grip and just allowed to float free for a fleeting while. We have … Continue reading Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 16th July 2023
Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 9th July 2023
(Photo by Maria Teneva on Unsplash) The footprints of time wait for neither the laggard nor the sprightly. The most precious amongst things irretrievable, the passage of time is bereft of tradeoffs and opportunity costs. Ruminations and reflections mirror the escape of this immutable wonder. As we introspect over time lapsed in seven daily chunks, here's encapsulating the … Continue reading Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 9th July 2023
Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 2nd July 2023
(Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash) It is time to take weekly stock yet again of the remorseless and unrelenting passage of time. Seven days of professional rigours and personal revelries. Seven days of patience and frenzy. Here’s encapsulating the memories, music and musings from a week gone by! Article/Longform Article/Blogpost of the Week: “Breaking Down the Gap … Continue reading Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 2nd July 2023
Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 25th June 2023
(Photo by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash) In the wink of an eye, seven days are taken away from us by the ravages of time. However, the pillager has been magnanimous enough to leave in our possession a week's worth of sight, sounds, smells and smiles. Here's encapsulating yet another period that has sped by us at the … Continue reading Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind – 25th June 2023
Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind
(Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash) The passage of time is immutable, inevitable and imminent. So, what is 7 days in the grander scheme of the cosmos? But every day comes wrapped in its own contradictory package of surprises and mundane repetitions. So, here’s encapsulating the moments, memories and melodies of a week gone by:Quote of the … Continue reading Weekend Ruminations of an over wrought mind
Venky Speaks – The Weekend Diaries
Reminiscence of yet another week gone by!
Year In Books – 2022
If the readings in and of 2021 was to a great extent, directed towards preserving the last vestiges of sanity in a world teetering to come to grips with a medical crisis of untold proportions, 2022 was reading for thanksgiving, every page a paean to the overwhelming joy of staying alive, every book a realisation … Continue reading Year In Books – 2022
READING THROUGH 2021
As the world floundered from one crisis to the next, 2021 made 2020 look like a beatific year in Paradise. Events ranging from the bizarre to the bawdy rocked Planet Earth with an intensity that might have – arguably – induced premonition in the poor dinosaurs just before they were pelted into extinction by some … Continue reading READING THROUGH 2021
Neeraj Chopra – The Yudhishthira of Tokyo 2020
(Image Credit: Reuters) Folklore has it that one of the most spectacular sights in the epochal Kurukshetra war was the wielding of the spear by the Pandava King Yudhishthira. An absolute maestro of his craft, Dharmaraja (as Yudhishthira was popularly known), was unparalleled in the use of the weapon of his choice. The most righteous … Continue reading Neeraj Chopra – The Yudhishthira of Tokyo 2020