It's like playing a role in a Hollywood film. Walk into any public arena. Say, a grocery store. There's this numbing feel that something potentially lethal, dangerously real and spookingly invisible is stalking us while we walk down the aisles. Unnecessary hallucination? For once NO! The broadcast media screaming in alarm alerting us of the... Continue Reading →

'Being compulsively positive' is a special state of mind... doesn't happen just like that. Its birth spot is chaos. And, its thriving arena is tribulation.Life just full of fun and frolic? Ha! How boring! Everything is so sweet. Consistently and saturatingly. No undulations. No ups and downs. No roller-coaster. And, no thrill.So? Go looking for... Continue Reading →

Delusion! What a tricky state of mind to be in... being made to believe what is not! Take the movie 1917 for instance. Its cinematography ruthlessly unleashes this 'state' on our unbelieving senses. We do know that the stuff we are seeing just can't happen. Yet, we just can't not believe what's dramatically unfolding right... Continue Reading →

I heartily thank Team NE8x for encouraging me with the NE8x Litfest 2019 AUTHOR OF THE YEAR award for THE ASTRAL SURGE and also honoring me with these wonderfully designed mementos and certificates. I take it that, as a debutant author, I should place my respects and regards for the initiatives NE8x is taking to recognize... Continue Reading →

All of us come into this world with this 'de-facto' state of not being painted with any religious shade.No child, for instance, identifies themself as a flag-bearer of any religious mission.But, as we go along, we start bracketing ourselves into a particular religious thought process. And, eventually, we imbibe it as part of our personality... Continue Reading →

Both are so easily said than done.'Cause, both the body and the mind get happily fat as life's temptations are too yummy for them to resist.Against this backdrop, how can we even talk about the pluses of being lean and simple?Excuse me... Did I hear you blabber something just now? Did you say 'give up... Continue Reading →

There's a very interesting contention. Which most of us are so conversant with. When you can get totally lost just by watching the beauty of the whole thing using your God-given eyes, why dilute it by composing a fragmented, dented view of the entire scene with a small little frame? A frame that snatches your... Continue Reading →

The devil is in details.Which means, I need to look at every little thing, up close. Really close. 'Cause, that's where lies the key to the ever-elusive perfection.So, having to be 'micro' all the time is a virtue. Definitely.Or, is it?Does it, by any chance, indicate another possibility? Of trapping me into becoming myopic?Possibly, yes.... Continue Reading →

WHAT THE NOVEL IS ABOUT Those of us blessed with a comfortable life are definitely the minority compared to those who are not. Not by the number maybe but by the sheer scale of misery the unfortunate lot go through for absolutely no fault of theirs. Children suffering physical and sexual abuse at the hands... Continue Reading →