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August 8, 2014
Contest 1 Results: And the Winner Is…
Some Preliminaries This post must begin with two words: Thank you. When I told my wife that I was planning to run contests on my blog, she kept quiet for a minute. Then she said, ‘Are you sure you will get more than one entry?’ As you can see, I married the right girl. My […]
Micro Fiction: Ten More 55-word-stories to Light Up Your Day
Last Friday, Vivek Banerjee brought you ten 55-word-stories. Here are ten more. Pause The monitor suddenly stopped beeping almost causing his heart to stop. The surgeon, intent on his work, didn’t even notice. The anesthetist placed his hands on the patient pulse and found it steady. He realised that the power supply to the monitor […]
August 7, 2014
Flash Fiction: An Unfinished Story
Back in 2008, Livejournal conducted a flash fiction contest where 500-word-stories had to be written on the theme: journal. They gave us a sop saying that all selected stories ‘might’ go into a published book, and we were allowed to send in more than one entry. I sent in five. I’m serializing them on this blog. This is the […]
Love and Longing in Art: Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus was a musician, poet and prophet in ancient Greek mythology. Like the Hindu Tumbura and Narada, his music was thought to be so delectable as to melt rocks, coax animals into submission, and to divert the course of rivers. Some versions of the Jason myth name Orpheus as one of the argonauts. However, Orpheus’s […]
Photo Post: Far From the Madding Crowd
These lines from the title of an immortal Thomas Hardy novel have become clichés due to constant use and misuse. We all want to escape from the pressures of day to day living, the deadlines, stress, pollution and traffic. But can we survive for even a few days without the trappings of modern civilization? How […]
August 6, 2014
Nietzsche on The Art of Suffering Well
Yesterday, I was talking to a friend about this and that, and talk eventually turned – as it seems to do a lot these days – to the subject of happiness. After we exchanged a few superficial words about it, my friend slammed down his glass on the wooden table and said with vehemence, ‘The main […]
Photo Post: Skylines
Kumarakom, Kottayam District, Kerala State, God’s Country. Calm. Placid. The aroma of the tropics in your nose, the buzz of steroid-laden dragonflies in your ears, the gentle burble of the lagoon saturated with promises of carrying your consciousness to the ocean and beyond, the rains that descend like solid shimmering mirrors causing green to erupt […]
August 5, 2014
Come With Me, Let us Touch the Sky
This excellent sketch and poem have come to us from Priya Sridhar, who blogs at Kismi Toffee Bar. If you haven’t checked out her blog, you absolutely must. She’s got tons of cool stuff over there. Pink is for girls, blue for boys, they said. How would you like it, if you were packed into boxes, […]
A 4-Step-Guide to Working out Your Retirement Point
Our lives run according to a financial script. Equip yourself with skills to earn money Earn money Retire on your savings Retirement is often called the ‘golden period’, because you’re independently wealthy and without the need to work. It is the only time in life, the theory goes, when you have both money and time […]
Photo Post: Hide and Seek
Every game, every lesson, every piece of wisdom we possess is all nature’s gift to us. I was doing a little bit of trekking on Phase 2 of the Gondola ride on a mountain in Gulbarg. The winter had just arrived, the moon had just waved at us, the dew was just beginning to collect on the […]
