Ours is a downcast generation. It appears that soon the entire humanity would curl up. By wedging the buttocks in an armchair facing a screen, the homo sapiens is shrivelled. Back problems are the evil of this century. From osteopathy to treadmills in workplaces, resistance is planned so human bodies may recover from bad postures. The Macintosh and the...
Read MoreA Chronicle of Wasted Time
If you need to attend to a phone call, an email, a Whatsapp message or a Facebook post, do not waste your time glancing at this post for, at the end of it, this may take you nowhere. It is not my wish to add to your own chronicle of wasted time and this essay is not for those who try to extract significant profit out of all they do. They won’t turn...
Read MoreSome Asleep, Others Wide Awake
Don’t consider this narrator heartless on getting to the end of this post. It is not his intention to blame or condemn a person. He shares here how the memory of something that happened long ago — an old event or a forgotten anecdote helps us to bear difficulty or pain with a beaming face. Are you envious of a solitary translator working from...
Read MoreIn Search of First-Rate Poets
Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae. [Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets being second rate. ] That was the Roman poet Horace (Quintas Horatius Flaccus) in his Ars Poetica. That reminded me of the 80’s lazy afternoons when we used to be students. A lazy afternoon then meant a...
Read MoreVignettes of India’s Transport Scene
What follows are a few quick sketches of some aspects of India’s transport scene. Yes, in the 21st century. Here’s the vehicle of our dream. It is non-polluting and economically beneficial for both the pilot and the passenger. If you are a believer in the ‘trickle-down theory’, this should be your means of conveyance. You are even...
Read MoreThe Neighbourhood ‘Iron-man’
I see him as he puts coal to the dark underbelly of his earthen furnace every dawn when I go out for my morning constitutional. He then lights the furnace and rapidly stirs the surrounding air with a palm-leaf hand-fan. As the embers light up and smoke billows out, he gets engaged in arranging the pile of washed clothes collected from the houses in the...
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