(Image Credit: http://www.bookdepository.com) The snort of sprightly horses, the yelp of endearing dogs, the rearing of sheep and the tranquil silence of an…
(Image Credit: Crispina Kemp) In an alternate universe, Don Quixote, oblivious to the pleadings of Sancho Panza would have made a full tilt…
As the world floundered from one crisis to the next, 2021 made 2020 look like a beatific year in Paradise. Events ranging from…
(Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash) There today, gone tomorrow, mere specks of gold dust Making and marring memories like a camera with astounding shutter speed…
It’s not often that a single individual succeeds in donning both the mantle of an icon and the garb of an iconoclast, especially…
(Image Credit: http://www.Amazonprime.com) One of the greatest champions the world of tennis has ever seen, Pete Sampras always wore a look that was…
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) I invoked the universally acclaimed search capabilities of Google multiple times to reassure my confounded self that the primary character…
(Image Credit: http://www.ebay.com) Bharatanatyam to Raj Shekhar Subramanian is what breath is to life. A universally acknowledged genius of his craft, Subramanian once…
(Image Credit: ourquadcities.com) At the time of this writing, 771 million people in the world lack access to safe water, while an even greater…
(Photo by Gio Chanturia on Unsplash) Screaming inside yet sitting stoic and bolt upright Crying from within yet dry as a desert to every sight without…
(Image Credit: Subbu Publications) The former Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University, Daniel H H Ingalls, is known to have referred to…
(Photo by Jake Nebov on Unsplash) Dazzling rays boring down an already overheated asphalt The world whirring by in a whiz of screeching tires Time for…
(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Paul Auster’s “Bloodbath Nation” is a cathartic jeremiad on an insidious phenomenon that has gripped the world’s biggest economy. The…
(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Christopher Butler, once described postmodernism and its advocates as a “loosely constituted and…
(Photo by Shawn Ho on Unsplash) Interpreting, Intuiting and Invoking motives Goading, encouraging and perpetuating sibilance Glint of deadly steel as knives are sharpened Deadlier anger…
(Inage Credit: http://www.amazon.com) At the core of Niven Govinden’ s “Diary of a Film”, is another book. William Maxwell’s “The Folded Leaf”, influences,…