“Help me, love poem, to make things whole again, to sing in spite of pain. It’s true the world does not cleanse itself of wars, does not wash off the blood, does not get over its hate. Its true.
A few short verses for where prose stops dead… “Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilisations the moon has seen passing by.” – (Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) * Omar Khayyam was
I suddenly find myself living in a world Haunted by word-monsters They are bursting with intelligence and opinions Philosophies and ideas Empathy and outrage Eclectic tastes in music and movies Poems and critiques; Words pour out from every crevice of
In a recent issue of a bestselling, mainstream Indian magazine, the cover story was titled, The Modi Machine- inside the most audacious Prime Ministerial campaign so far and the editorial concluded by saying, “Just like Arvind Kejriwal had changed Indian
To quote Aldous Huxley “In recent years logicians and semanticists have carried out a very thorough analysis of the symbols in terms of which men do their thinking. Linguistics has become a science, and while this is greatly for
A platter-ful of food and questions – presenting ‘The Food Issue’ – Bon Apetit! Do eggs know they have little suns trapped in them? Do watermelons know they conceal hillocks covered with pink snow? Do litchis know sweet melting glaciers
Images and stories burnt like shooting stars in the night sky of the passing year…momentarily ablaze with new narratives of changing times. Burnt out stories, survived by their footnotes. Their references and contexts stretching far and beyond the obvious. Incandescent,
(The writing on Belgian surrealist painter, Rene Magritte’s painting, ‘The Treachery of images’, which shows the picture of a pipe followed by this line) “The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe?
Standing at the site of the Heidelberg printing press, mixed emotions sweep over, and I wonder if twenty years down the line this factory will still remain. I mentally make a list of which other businesses or profession suffered this
There has been a long standing debate on the ethics of bio-genetics. Habermas, while speaking in Marburg some years ago warned of a loss of understanding of ourselves and our environment as a result of bio-genetic manipulation, whereby we shall