When was the first time she listened to the other person without being selfish? Without being ‘what’s in it for me’? Without “I”? Without tapping her foot? In a small but well-decorated bedroom. In a narrow bed with devices attached. A window opened to a wide lawn with trees blurred in rain. An LED TV…

THE BURIAL January 2026. The body was being laid in the grave. An overcrowded graveyard with fewer mourners for the wrapped lady. A 45-year-old Guriya. But there stood the father. Broken. Torn apart. Much older than yesterday. And it was all a repeat telecast. THE GOD. My God. If cruelty had a blasphemous image. “I’m…

On the flip side of the classes, poor people have higher birth rates than upper-middle and elite classes and they are in much larger numbers. Roughly half of the population is poor. That half is producing laborers and slaves for the top two classes. A kid born here will serve a kid born there. No,…

The conception. The long nine months. The birth – the lone God-gesture only mothers can perform. The nurturing of a new life. A woman giving her body, in return for heavenly pain, to become a mother. The prophetic transformation. From womb to lap. Day and night. Night and day. The first word. The second. Crawling.…

To kill. One of the first human instincts. Then bury. The second instinct. Then takeover the leftovers. Third instinct. Then be remembered as a villain throughout the history. Not an instinct. It’s a lineage. A bloody lineage. The one who got killed, died. The one who killed, reproduced. Until, 8 billion. 8 billion galaxies. And…

Suicide is a cowardly act. Until I, or someone very close to me, commits it. We are the strong ones – men and women. We don’t fall. Not just because we don’t have an option to, but because we can’t. We are invincible. Unstoppable. And we roar like a tiger in our inner jungles –…

“You complete me.” You may recall this iconic line from Jerry Maguire (1996), when Tom Cruise says it to Renee Zellweger. Second only to “you had me at hello” from that movie. That was its romantic side: one person completing another, emotionally and spiritually. This same iconic line returned with an impact when Joker (Heath…

Words define us. Actions follow, but words lead. Law, constitution, pledges, relationships, love, hate, marriage, divorce, disagreement, praise, criticism – are all words. Since writing began, words have shaped the world. Religions, scriptures, myths, gospels, miracles – are all words. Your social norms, acceptable behavior, ethos, pathos, logos, morality, absurdity, immorality – are all words.…