Lies are as important as the truth. They are ubiquitous and serve a purpose.
Cricket play such a vital role in the life of the nation, that maybe it is time to declare cricket an essential service. Many hours of the millions of Indians depend on it for their daily fix.
Warning: All the blah here is probably vaccine induced.😁 Maybe you shouldn’t waste your time reading this. Writing a piece is sometimes energy sapping. I thought free verse was easier. Poetic license seemed an attractive option.
In the seven years since MH370 was last seen, much has been said and yet key questions remain unanswered. Will a renewed search take us closer to the truth?
Hate comes easy. Hope much less so. One wonders if love is the answer or just another ingredient in a zero-sum game that starts with defining who is the outsider.
Words mean different things to different people. Who we are and the context we live in shapes meanings we give to them. ‘Honour’ and ‘peace’ too are no exception.
Manual scavenging is a dehumanising practice and is an instance where the law prohibiting it is becoming more stringent, but the will to implement it remains weak.
The ‘living will’ is an idea whose time has come. Perhaps out of love for our family, we ought to frame one so that those in whose care we may find ourselves do not find themselves tossed by emotional storms, caught between duty, compassion, constraints and love.
(This is fiction. Ah well, fiction is just a cover, you might say, a reality in disguise, sometimes dressed up to make your heart soar and sometimes too stripped and stark as to scare and leave you with that sinking feeling) Stricken with grief, it feels like the world has deserted me, no matter how…
Caregiving is hard to get right. While a patient’s plight is there for all to see and be with, the caregiver often stays in the shadows, and is not acknowledged, appreciated or supported. Lest we forget, the patient’s recovery and well being depends greatly on the caregiver.