The day was 26 January, ‘the new head of state, Rajendra Prasad, took the salute in what was to become an annual and ever more spectacular parade. Three thousand men of the armed forces marched before the President. The artillery fired a thirty one- gun salute while liberator planes of the Indian air force flew…

"I am what I am, so take me as I am", resonates across the new 'Rainbow India'. The strapping of human society based on sexuality was torn down and a new colourful shawl embellishing diversity was draped on India by the Supreme Court yesterday. It would be apposite to call the decriminalising of homosexuality a…

The legion of incidents over the past four years has driven home an idea surreptitiously: resist the brunt, raise your voice, and you feel the pinching heat. We may not have been directly associated with the idea, but this idea and its ideology have become a veritable Frankenstein monster, growing to its full size. The…

The Supreme Court in its latest judgment has refused to refer the Ayodhya land dispute to a constitutional bench (5 Judge Bench) and has stuck to its earlier contentious line: Mosque is not an integral part of Muslim Worship. Without harking back to the original land dispute problem, a singular analysis of the present judgment…

My day has become darker, and my mind filled with your thoughts, My eyes search for you, though I know  the air has taken you into her, Breathing in and breathing out,  your scent, Can't I breathe my life in you? I am left wailing here in need of your caressing arms. You carried me…

When the Sun fed the Moon’s arrival, When the sky started to bleed its color, When the stars started to ring the night’s doorbell, When every eye on the World vanished into their world, Why did mine get lost in the clear face of yours, oh Moon! My nights have become longer, Why don’t you…

Years have rolled on, and seasons changed, I lie on a bow of arrows whose pain avers my existence, Her distant image brings glimpses of happiness, but thoughts of recrudescence of love suck the faintest existence of my life. The moon who comes to my doorstep and the cuckoo who coos at my window are…

When life has become still, Why am I still alive? Around, the flower forgets to color itself,  Still, my eyes beam with radiance. The Sun has gone to eternal sleep, darkness looms, But yet sunshine falls on me? Breeze stopped its flight, depriving life, And here I am yearning for lesser breath. Corpses fill the…

‘Do I love you that much, I do not know' Clear the sky looks, Lucid blue decorating it. Yet, the darker my life is, as Nothing, just your memories are left in it. Wide the land is spread, Its, vastness unconquered and unblemished, Still, just bones dangle over, with life vanished, Nothing, just because of…

Wading in the dark, I smile at the pink moon, Moon glares and wishes she had eyes to close, sigh! You are not as lucky as me. I stretch my hands to grab the torn pink shawl, which my Amma told 'This will make even the beautiful envy.' But now her favorite pink petal lies…